Lonk: You're forgetting Rob is on the "Island" they don't get the speeds we get on the mainland. We're having issue's with our company as well as one of our subsidiaries (my favourite) is based there.
The fastest fiber we got over there is 30/30.

PPPoE isn't as bad as you think, most of our Fiber Optic lines here in NL are connected through that as well. At home for instance I got 50/50 Fiber using PPPoE, last time I checked I had an uptime for over 200 days, a lot of days I got constant streaming going on with no delays or hiccups.

As far as connecting goes, most Fiber Optic lines are working with VLAN's and PPPoE.
Personally I got a Cisco switch handling the VLAN's and a Draytek for the PPPoE & Firewall.