said by Jonson9688:
Ok, I just verified it. Using pppoe means that you are sacrificing the aol client. This means no aol client with pppoe, even with the Home Network setting. You can, however, use a different computer to login to a different screen name, when the modem is put through the uplink port. I have no idea what happens when a router is used, you guys can try to find out 
A router should work. Just sign on to a different screenname if you want to use the software along with your pppoe session.
said by storm64007:
So, that means if you have only one comp and use ppoe, then you can never access the software?
That's for you to decide storm. You can connect to either one at a time or both

Most will obviously prefer without using the client. From this point on, AOL can now put their AOL Companion e-mail client to real good use.