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Feature Request: Add support for PPPoE

many ISPs, including CenturyLink require PPPoE. Without this support, eero cannot be used as a router and only as a bridge. 

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    • Professor
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I literally signed up for this support forum just to voice my extremely strong support for this incredibly basic feature: PPPoE. 

    • Mikedsokc
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I would think eero would have supported PPPoE right from the start. Now I have to use two routers. Double NAT is very undesirable. Please support PPPoE. 

    • adamferch
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I should have done my research. I will be returning the Eero, why would I continue to use a product that I cannot use all the features.

    • Belfong
    • 5 yrs ago
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    Wanted to add my voice to wanting PPPoE as well. I spent almost 2 days figuring out why my setup was stuck at “Registering your Eero” pages for days. I called support and my modem, app, Eero etc was checked out fine. Then we tried to connect to my router and boom, it worked. Only then we found out that we need to login to the isp using PPPoE. What a bummer to a new user experience of setting up. Please do support PPPoE in future as currently I have to power up a modem, a redundant router and Eero. Very unsightly. 

    • ttnicky
    • 5 yrs ago
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    There was some employee involvement in this thread when it first launched a year or so ago. I haven't seen any employee response in ages. I'm about giving up that this will ever be addressed by Eero, which is a shame. I have 3 units that are crippled by this. Yet I constantly get emailed promotions by Eero to purchase additional products and services. Ha!

      • Denash97227
      • 5 yrs ago
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      ttnicky  Agreed, the Eero folks on this thread are generally very helpful and were quick to reply on topic initially, but then went silent. After this experience, I bought my son Google Wifi. He is on the same ISP as me (Centurylink Fiber) and had a far easier out of box experience.  A quick note though for CL users:  even w/PPPoE support, you still need VLAN support too, to remove the CL provided router. Fortunately, many managed switches can do this; that's what we did. Works great.

      • Belfong
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Denash97227 

      Denash97227 said:
      even w/PPPoE support, you still need VLAN support too, to remove the CL provided router.

       Do you mind elaborating in this a little bit more. Do you mean you still need to get a switch to do this? Meaning, modem<->swittch<->eero? I was hoping that having PPPoE support means I could do away with the existing router and have just two devices: modem<->eero. Will be a bummer if I have to find another switch to achieve this.

      • Denash97227
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Belfong hi there. CL also uses VLAN tagging, at least for their fiber service. All CL traffic is tagged 202, probably to support their Prism IPTV stb. So even if eero provides PPPoE support, something else on the network needs to tag the traffic 202. In my case, I used a managed switch to do this. Hope this helps. Cheers

    • bryzi
    • 5 yrs ago
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    My main router (with pppoe) looks like it’s about to die, needs resetting at least once a week.  I’m at the point now where because eero doesnt support pppoe, rather than replace it I’m just going to buy google WiFi instead and replace everything.  A friend of mine recently bought google WIFI and has had a great experience so far.

    • Professor
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I'm with you guys. Eero have been extremely useless in recent years. Even their support has become bitter and useless, in addition to being aggressively unhelpful and rude in my experience. I'm starting to really hate them as a company. 

    • Belfong
    • 5 yrs ago
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    Be sure to vote for this feature request at the top of the thread. There are now 24 votes. If there are more, perhaps we can influence the dev's decision. 

    • shawnsbrain66
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I work for an small ISP and we love eero. We only do PPPOE though and I can guarantee we'd sell more eeros if they had this feature! 

      • Packard
      • 5 yrs ago
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      shawnsbrain66 Thanks for your reply. I handle sales for eero for ISP's. Please reply back to me with your email if you'd like to discuss ISP reselling further. 

      • shawnsbrain66
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Packard I'm already an EERO reseller, unless ISP reseller is different. It's just the customer still needs a router to do PPPOE.

      • Packard
      • 5 yrs ago
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      shawnsbrain66 Understood. Yes, our ISP program is very different. Happy to connect further about it when it makes sense for you and your company. Thanks.

      • shawnsbrain66
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Packard can I dm you my email?

      • eero Community Manager
      • Jeff_C
      • 5 yrs ago
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      shawnsbrain66 I forwarded  Packard your email. Thanks!

      • ttnicky
      • 5 yrs ago
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      shawnsbrain66 whoa, you got employee response! Still no word on PPPOE though :(

      • eero Community Manager
      • Jeff_C
      • 5 yrs ago
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      ttnicky  Thanks for checking in. At this time, we have no updates to share regarding PPPoE support. It is something we continue to have under consideration. Once we have any definitive update to share (in one direction or the other), we will be sure to update this thread.

      • ttnicky
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Jeff C. Thanks for the response, nice to know we are still on the radar.

    • Denash97227
    • 5 yrs ago
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    Jeff C. I'm in Product Management, so keenly understand the need to prioritize. Our own support team often has to ask our customers to 'wait'. FWIW, This is a serious market need that your competitors are addressing better than you are. I can write a business case on this in about 30 minutes. LMK if your product teams wants one, no charge. But I'll close with a joke: 'A product manager walks into a bar, asks for drink. Bartender says 'no', but will consider adding later.'

      • Belfong
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Denash97227 I'd be happy to know what is the reasons for not supporting PPPoE. Is it because it will complicate user onboarding? Is it because of security? 

      I'd think that lack of supporting PPPoE caused my user on boarding experience to be pretty bad. I plugged in the Eero directly into the modem per the instructions and nothing happens. I got stuck in "Registering your Eero". When I contacted support, they tried to register for me and asked me to restart my modem.. We spent almost a few tries and then conclude that it could be because my ISP requires a user id and password and support asked me to plug in the old router and connect Eero to it (double NATing).. only then did we realise my ISP was using PPPoE. 

      • Denash97227
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Belfong  I'm not sure why you're asking me this q. I'm a customer, like you, and I seriously need this feature too, like you.  I am also double NAT'd, like you, and everybody else who has an ISP like CL who requires PPPoE.  I offered a little empathy above to  Jeff C. Support does not make these decisions, Product Management does. I don't know but can only surmise that they are pursuing investments they believe are higher ROI for the company.  That's what I do.  

    • Ryan_db
    • 5 yrs ago
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    This is definitely a +1 for me. Any update on supporting PPPoE?

    • jadhajj
    • 5 yrs ago
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    another +1, I need this badly!

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