I lived in a gated estate in South Africa with a closed fiber network provider (Single ISP only) and there the ISP required a specific VLAN for the PPPOE connection. They also used a separate VLAN ID for their VOIP telephony service which you had the option of subscribing to if you needed it. I have installed the express for two of my friends and although I love the idea of it - DAMN it's SLOW. It takes ages to boot up, especially with the initial setup, so Willie is spot on - go and make some coffee and be very patient.

How about a speed test of the UniFi Gateway Ultra PPPoE connection?

Hey Willie. Another great video as always. Here in the UK we have recently had an influx of full fibre to the premises infrastructure providers and ISP's too. In my region we have CityFibre managing the infrastructure and fibre to the home cables and ONT boxes then they partner up with a number of ISP's that provide the internet service on CityFibre's network. I had symetrical 1Gbit up/down for around $45 USD per month no data caps but now CityFibre have some partner providers giving up to 7Gbit for around $150 USD per month. My old FTTP provider used VLAN ID 911 and I am just changing to another and they also use VLAN ID 911 so I guess it's to do with the inftastructure provider CityFibre applying the VLAN ID 911 not the actual ISP which I guess makes sense. I wonder what other VLAN ID numbers they use and what for! With all these ISP's popping up makes me wonder if they keep their equipment up to date with so much competition out their and what if any will go belly up and leave customers with no internet. Hope you find this info useful !😊

In New Zealand the fibre networks all use VLAN 10. Usually the username/password is just a placeholder as the connection is linked via the ONT fibre box.

I experienced really garbage performance from the Unifi Express with PPPoE. Like, down to 50 Mbit/s bad. With PPPoE connected, the CPU was maxed out 100% of the time, disabling the PPPoE connection caused things to go back to normal. I went back to my Edgerouter 4 (which worked perfectly), and now to the Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra, and both of those worked and work just fine.

I'm using Orange in Poland. I've read that it's the same for Orange in France. The ISP provides internet on VLAN 35. You can also bundle IPTV with your internet, but that requires VLANs 838 AND 839, and this setup doesn't seam to be possible with the modern unifi gateways.

A rather niche problem I had with pppoe with VLAN tagging is I can't setup a router-on-a-stick (with a switch between the router and the ONT).

I'm in the UK and PPPoE is very popular here which dame provider I needed to specify a vlan when I had fibre to the cabinet but didn't need it when I had fibre to the premises

For fiber, you usually need sn instead of MAC or vlan

Centurylink uses the PPPoE vlan settings on us based fiber connections. "IF" you connect a device directly to the fiber at the NID you will need to use it.

Hi Willie, I’m from the Netherlands and my Internet and IPTV provider is called KPN witch is one of the biggest in our country. Situation is that they use multiple VLANs , VLAN 4 = IPTV, VLAN 5 = Telephony and VLAN 6 = Internet over their PPPOE connection. I would love to configure my UXG Lite so I can use PPPOE and these VLANS over the WAN port so I can get rid of my KPN router (experia box). Thanks for your content.

In France and using Orange Pro Fibre. Still having to use the supplied Livebox with the integrated ONT. I still don't have a working solution bypassing/removing the LiveBox and using only Unifi boxers, but if I do get there, I'll share

Hello Willie, Long time watcher but recently subscribed to your channel, was wondering if you'd consider doing a Ikev2/ipsec for site-to-mobile on the edge router? Android removed the option for l2tp so was curious if this is something that can be done?

I have a zyxel GM4100 and I’m not able to connect pppoe in UniFi. I have a USG pro connected to the modem. And the modem supposedly has a bridge connection. The modem can connect via pppoe, but the issue with this is that I cannot from the internet into my house, even if I turn off the firewall on the modem side. UniFi ends up with a WAN local IP from the modem…thank you for any help.

id really like to know more about that MAC box....... vlans are common with bell 35 here in canada.

Thanks Willie for a great video. I have a question about this router, and my isp static ip addresses. If I use this router, I will need to use a switch for other devices on my network that are using static ip addresses that are included with my isp static block of addresses. Can I use this router between my modem and the other devices that are using the isp static addresses?

Great content I used the vlan ID pppoe wan connection on an ubiquiti edge router X sfp and it's great. Haven't used it on a unifi gateway. Final question what happened to the ISP videos?

Its happen in UAE

Have you had any luck with pppoe on the secondary WAN (spwcifically for me, of the UCG-Ultra)? If I configure this it completely kills my network and crashes pcs that are on it! Same settings on the primary port work fine!