http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Finders/Routers/?WLA...

I haven't checked all of those, but the ones I have looked at claim 4 x gigabit Ethernet ports but avoid stating the speed of the WAN port...

Haven't looks at the specs of all, but the Drayteks and Billion have gigabit WAN ports

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In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Ah right. Perhaps future proofing then.

That would be a fair-enough reason, but I suspect he'll be drawing a pension before he needs anything faster than 100Mbps on a BT connection

Yeah its mostly for future proofing but I guess your right with BT and gbps speeds
But the Linksys E4200 looks like it matches everything I want. I wonder if the WAN port is compatible with BT's VDSL modem (PPPoE compliant?)

For the Billion (and the Drayteks, come to that), where does it explicitly claim the WAN port is gigabit? It sort of skirts around it on the pages I've seen...

Re the Airport Extreme- yes, it's a gigabit WAN port:

In reference to www.apple.com/uk/airportextreme/specs.html:

Interfaces
One Gigabit Ethernet WAN port for connecting a DSL or cable modem
Three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports for connecting computers or network devices
USB 2.0 port for connecting a USB printer or USB external hard drive
802.11n wireless

Edited by billford (Mon 30-May-11 20:07:43)

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But the Linksys E4200 looks like it matches everything I want. I wonder if the WAN port is compatible with BT's VDSL modem (PPPoE compliant?)

Looks a good router (though personally I'm not keen on either Netgear or Linksys).

It should be FTTC compatible... but it doesn't claim that the WAN port is gigabit, only the 4 LAN ports, and I can't see any mention of IPv6?

The output from the OR modem is pure ethernet. You don't even need a router for a simple connection. There shouldn't be a problem with any cable router, so the one under discussion should be fine.

The only reason I said "should" rather than "will" is because I couldn't see any mention of PPPoE... and as should be clear from my other comments in this thread, I prefer to go by what it says in the technical spec

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The output from the OR modem is pure ethernet. You don't even need a router for a simple connection. There shouldn't be a problem with any cable router, so the one under discussion should be fine.

I should think it needs to be able to do PPPoE. Not just straight Ethernet. Chances are if you connect directly then it is because the OS stack can easily speak PPPoE.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but otherwise it'd not make much sense.

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In reply to a post by RobertoS:

The output from the OR modem is pure ethernet. You don't even need a router for a simple connection. There shouldn't be a problem with any cable router, so the one under discussion should be fine.

I should think it needs to be able to do PPPoE. Not just straight Ethernet. Chances are if you connect directly then it is because the OS stack can easily speak PPPoE.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but otherwise it'd not make much sense.

Oops! Yes indeed. But although it needs checking, is it conceivable that it won't, with a spec like that?