The Billion Bipac 7800n is a quality router if you need something cheaper, have read of people using FTTC on it, but not used FTTC myself personally yet.

Thanks for all the info folks. i still don't know which one im going to buy but I'll get there in the end.


Cheers
saboo.......

After using a Draytek 2820VN for two years i would never recommend a Draytek. The hardware was good, but the firmware was extremely buggy and stayed that way throughout the entire time i used the device.

I finally ditched it in favour of a Draytek 120 ADSL modem attached to an Asus RT-N16 running the TomatoUSB firmware.

The RT-N16 is a couple of years old now, but it's still a great router if you don't need 5GHz wifi. It's gigabit on both LAN and WAN ports so you should be fine even if speeds exceed 100Mbps in the near future.

Whatever router you go for the best bit of advice i can give is to make sure it's compatible with the various open-source firmwares out there. The stock firmwares are often extremely poor but something like TomatoUSB can give you capabilities you'd otherwise spend hundreds on.

If you want to do a lot more than just routing then i'd suggest building your own out of an older (or a low-power, cheap Atom/Brazos) computer. A couple of 1Gbps NICs in the machine and installing pfSense on it will give you features you can't get on a commodity router at any price. Couple it with a cheap 1Gbps network switch and your old WNR1000 for wifi and you've got yourself a very powerful solution. This is the solution i'll probably be going with the next time i need to upgrade (although with a Fon router for wifi so i get free access to all the other Fon hotsports).

I have just upgraded to the ASUS RT-N56u, fantastic router in my opinion. Had mine for around 6 weeks now and had no issues whatsoever. The real advantage of this router for me is it's wireless coverage. We have thick walls around the house and have struggled with signal in some rooms but with this router I get excellent coverage all around the house.

I have a Billion 7800N that is performing superbly with ADSL2+. The wireless coverage can't be faulted in this four bedroomed house.

I am getting FTTC in a weeks time so I will be able to personally comment on its performance with Fibre then but my research on the interweb suggest that it works fine with BT Infinity.

HTH