topic Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions in Internet

Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

Meowenix — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:27:06 GMT

Greetings,

I have the Gigabit plan, with FTTH, and I would like to know what is the maximum amount of concurrent sessions I can have with my PPPoE login with my b1. All connections will be within the same fiber as they are going to be all in my home.

Reason I ask, is I am an IT Technician, and I would like to set-up a home lab, and require multiple WAN IP addresses.

I have not found any definite answer to this, some people say there is no limit, some say there are.. I would like to know the real answer, please.

Thank you!

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

BellPatricia — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:27:47 GMT

Hey there @Meowenix,

Welcome to the Bell Community.

Currently, we're not aware of a limit when it comes to how many PPPoE sessions you can have active at once.

We hope you will keep the Community posted on how everything is going with your set up.

- Patricia

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

ms65_it_Matt — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:12:28 GMT

Did you ever get this figured out? It's amazingly interesting to think you can get multiple public IPs on a circuit. I have a static on my business circuit so that wouldn't ever work, but just got a res line for TV which is not available in the same way in biz world. Did you have any luck or hit any limit? Did it affect which pppoe sessions could get TV working? I realize that's going further with VLANs etc

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

ZaneP — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:02:22 GMT

Hi @Meowenix

Afaik, Bell doesn't have a limit on the number of concurrent PPPoE sessions.

From a post on the Bell forum on DSL Reports:

"got this from Bell_Dom in the Bell Direct forum:

We are okay with multiple PPPoE sessions, as long as it's not on different DSL/FTTH ports concurrently.

No mention of a max.
As long as the sessions are coming down the same pipe, I don't think they care much."

So there doesn't seem to be a TOS violation.

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

Meowenix — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:00:42 GMT

Hey ms65_it_Matt,

I have only tried with 2 sessions at this time, but due to one of them disconnecting and not automatically reconnecting without rebooting my ASUS router every couple days, I have reverted back to the normal setup. I will be trying at another time with a different network topology.

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

ms65_it_Matt — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:03:07 GMT

Thanks to you both! I For now I just did the pass-thru PPPoE untagged from a lan port on the working Bell box. I get a fresh public IP on my router and full speed (it's just a 500/500.... I was forced to get to have residential TV....business TV not good) . I'm sure I can't get two IPs on by biz line as I have a static which is linked to the b1...... So this is awesome on the res line. I will test a lot more and maybe try to get straight on the fiber and figure out the VLAN stuff. But if the Bell box is just passinig PPPoE maybe it doesn't matter that it's a peice of crap...at least at <1Gbps. And if I can just do a few more sessions...wow, very cool opportunities for testing and lab work. I have read they limit the BW properly but will see if I get >500 with two sessions for sure, curious.

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

Meowenix — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:31:24 GMT

I was able to get a combination of speed of 1200 (I have the gigabit), splitting like 800 on one and 400 on the other when I ran simultaneous SpeedTest

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

GTA_doum — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:43:43 GMT

Hello,

since yesterday midnight, I am now limited to 4 concurrent connections, I was using 7.

Bell support refuses to give any kind of support outside of their modem. Anyone has information about this latest update and limitation?

Re: Concurrent PPPoE Sessions

BellNick — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:23:19 GMT

Hi there @GTA_doum
Thank you for your post.
We wanted to check in to see if you are still experiencing issues? If so, are you able to share with the Community your internet setup (connections, third party routers, devices, settings)?
Looking forward to hearing back.