Sky use DHCP Option 60/61 (don’t confuse that with MER), gone are the days of having to break out Wireshark to pull details though. Sky are an ‘interesting’ company, previous court documents give some insight into how they monitor certain activities on the network which would give me pause for thought. They also have T&C’s excluding the use of all 3rd party equipment, but they have never been enforced, unless you need support.
TalkTalk used to put all the CF connections via TT Business, who unlike TalkTalk residential were brilliant. I suspect it’s still the same, but TTB was sold off a while back (irony: TT bought market share for decades, drove price and service to the bottom and now can’t make money). I haven’t checked who’s still doing what. If you have a routing issue with TT for example, the residential side will literally tell you they have no process to deal with that after you’ve escalated it. They do have one of the largest published peering capacities of anyone though.
Sadly for me, my UDMP-SE will choke well before gigabit if it has to handle PPPoE, so the only real option is to deal with PPPoE another way, easy on OPN/DDWRT, but complicates maters and it’s another device to deal with a problem nobody should have to deal with… no, i’m not a fan of the UK obsession with PPPoE.
Out of interest, who are you using? As in the past I had issues nearing 1gb with PPPoE, but know Ubiquiti have had a few updates since (have avoided PPPoE for the last 2 years, first with TalkTalk and now with Yayzi)
Has something changed recently? It was a poster on OCUK who got Ubiquiti to add the PPPoE disclaimer 4 years back because it was so dire, the upgrade to give near gigabit was released without much fanfare or warning, so I suppose this could be the same?
