Need a Good DSL Modem/Router?

[cdeener]

I have SBC! Yahoo DSL and I will be getting a Xbox 360 soon. I need a good multi-port DSL Modem/Router to use for my setup so that I can connect to the internet on my PC and get on Xbox Live.

Any suggestions will be helpful because most of what I have found through SBC isn't helpful because it deals with Wireless Networking (I don't have wireless internet) and I am trying to keep this as cheap as possible.

[brendan424]

I've got a Zoom dsl modem/router. Works a helluva lot better than those damn sprint modems. Been using it for a year and still works beautifully. Before that I'd have to call up sprint every 3 months and get a new modem.

[bil4ltool]

Whatever router you get make sure you don't get a Dlink. D-Link routers always screw up and will disconnect your internet connection all the time, I've seen multiple people have this problem. I've had my Belkin router for a long time and it's worked perfectly, highly recommended.

[cdeener]

I am looking for one because my family likes to go online. Our computer and all of my gaming equipment are in the same room so I want to be able to go on Xbox Live and still be able to let them go online to do what they do at the same time.

[WolfPac_Ite]

Westell in general makes good DSL modems.

[beguile]

Whatever router you get make sure you don't get a Dlink. D-Link routers always screw up and will disconnect your internet connection all the time, I've seen multiple people have this problem. I've had my Belkin router for a long time and it's worked perfectly, highly recommended.

D Link worked fine for me over 3 years. Not once it disconnected me. For me, D Link works just as great as linksys.

[bfg9k]

While D-Link wouldn't be my first recommendation, I've been using my DI-604 router for a few years with no problems

[bil4ltool]

Ive known of at least 3 cases of DI-604 routers just being horrible, including my own, so I guess maybe it's not as common as it seems.

[DT778]

I have a DI-604 and its a piece of shit. I only connect it when I'm transfering files because after a while (like <6 hours) it disconnects and then I have to power it off and on again to get it to work.

[bil4ltool]

Yeah, I guess the lucky ones are the few who get DI-604's that are actually reliable, cause all the one's I've seen are total shit!

[dafoomie]

Yeah, I guess the lucky ones are the few who get DI-604's that are actually reliable, cause all the one's I've seen are total shit!
My DI-604 was rock solid for years, then after a firmware update, it seems to reboot a few times a day. Gets annoying when you're on XBL. I've got a wireless router here, but its not good either.

[bil4ltool]

Yeah that's the biggest problem I've seen with 'em constantly cutting the internet, or restarting. They seem to be nothing but a pain in the ass.

[Minger]

Bad experiences with Dlink here - nothing but good news with Netgear though.

[Kyo]

Oddly enough, my linksys router does the same (it often discconects me from the intenret and I would have to basically reset the connection and restart the router). People seem to tell me that D-link works better than linksys

Linksys also had a buggy browser interface that still wasn't fixed for my router.

But I had an old linksys router (i bought it around late 2004 when they first merged with Cisco i think) - I think pretty much all the new router should work perfectly now with cable and dsl.