the modem/router that came from BE is a bit touchy sometimes.....

changing a setting and itll crash..... and you have to start all over again....

which is a pita because... you have to go and change a load of settings to get it going again.... any of which might make it crash...
(its a speedtouch780)

its been ok for a long time (maybe a year?) but I did somethingsilly and changed a setting..... so Im back to square one.... 2 hours of fiderling with it later and its still not right.... so Ill just replace it....

what should I buy ?

Im on 20mb, dont need wireless, I want something that wont crash out when I have a load of torrent connections going downlaoding at 2megabytes a second...

Im on a Netgear DG834N.  Works fine, used it on Be and now on O2 and it works flawlessly.   Reboot needed about once every month to speed things up a little.  

thats the thing.... resets piss me off.... the old one - although twitchy setting up... once you (finally) got it going it was rock solid...

6 months uptime with 4TB downloaded wasnt a problem at all

I just reboot because its tied in to my monthly housekeeping duties (Disk Clean, defrag etc etc).  

I use (and recommend) Vigor and Netgear routers. You really cannot go wrong with them.

Ditto.

Draytek Vigor if its in the budget or a DG384

i bought a cheap sh*tty £20 from Ebuyer about 7 years ago. its still going strong.

If you want to do it right, a low end cisco router with an available WIC slot, and an HWIC-1ADSL is the best possible solution.

Happily the cisco 877 K9 just so happens to have the HWIC chipset on board, and can be had for around £100 on ebay nowadays.

Plus, its an actual router. And it does proper IPSEC VPN and supports loads of features like QoS, has a decent firewall etc etc

Quote from: Eggtasticoi bought a cheap sh*tty £20 from Ebuyer about 7 years ago. its still going strong.

 

Get a Zyxel if youre worried about quality - theyre pretty much netgear with a lower price tag.

Before just buying the cheapest thing, you need to check to see if the router youre picking out is compatible with Be.  Not all are, and some are, but they are a lot slower.  There are specific routers that work well for some reason, and other that just dont work.  It isnt divided between ADSL2 router and ADSL only ones either.  Some ADSL2 router just dont work with BeThere/O2.