In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by nish81:

I don't know what exactly they meant

Well, that's a great start.

Their exact words were 'no router hardware is provided by ourselves', so I don't know whether they meant a router in the technically accurate sense of 'we give a modem but not a router' or not. And I didn't ask about a modem in the first place

To be fair, they probably don't know themselves.

Anyway, so far I have this:

if they do provide a modem, the asus n66u is a solid router that's in my price range so I'll probably go for that.

if they don't provide a router, there's the d6300 but some of the bad reviews on that one put me off, so I'll still look around a bit more for another router that's in the same class as the n66u in terms of reputation

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

To be fair, they probably don't know themselves.

Have you actually used Aquiss, or are you attributing a general level of ignorance to all resellers?

In reply to a post by nish81:

Their exact words were 'no router hardware is provided by ourselves', so I don't know whether they meant a router in the technically accurate sense of 'we give a modem but not a router' or not.

Still don't bother! I may have mislead you, but, AFAIK, no ADSL ISP supplies a modem alone. It would be a job only part done! They either supply their own combined modem/router or nothing at all, or let you choose whether you want to 'buy' theirs or get your own.

All resellers. As I said, I wouldn't touch them, but that's just my opinion. I tend to stick to BT, Sky or TalkTalk but TalkTalk aren't for the faint-hearted. I was with BE for a long time but they lost the plot and are now owned by Sky.
BT's value arm, Plusnet, get some good reviews but appear to have some manual systems which go awry.

So my choice would be Sky but only if they have LLU available, or BT. Both of which provide a modem/router

One thing that I would like to add is that it's good to have a router with an event log where sync time stats are recorded. If one does have any problems with a line is handy to know the noise margins etc. at the moment of a resync

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I tend to stick to BT, Sky or TalkTalk

Says it all...

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I tend to stick to BT, Sky or TalkTalk

Says it all...

You forgot to include Aquiss in that comparison

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I tend to stick to BT, Sky or TalkTalk

Says it all...

You forgot to include Aquiss in that comparison

They don't have enough ratings to be included in the comparisons, I'd have thought you'd have checked that before making yourself look uninformed...