Yeah do it, billion are solid

I've got a 7300 that is so old the plastic is brown from heat, hasn't lost sync in years

I reckon the 7700N is good enough too, don't think the extra antenna's actually help, so unless you want GBit?

^ Don't listen to this psycho

i have experienced joy and happyness with my tplink

X3000, does adsl2 and gig wan.

http://shop.ozcableguy.com/detail.asp?product=X3000

I purchased a Billion 7800VDPX back in December as my old modem started going flakey.

Back then the product was abit new but after the latest firmware upgeade in Jan it has been working flawlessly for ADSL and SIP. The original firmware version had some SIP issues with Pennytel.

If you are in an area which is getting the NBN 'soon' you may want to look at the 7800NXL as it has the e-wan port which should be suitable.

It's a tad more expensive that you're talking about, but I'm fucking sold that it is, hands down, the best unit on the market.

I heartily recommend the Frizbox! 7390.
Awesome unit, amazing reliability and high sync speeds.

I think they're still around the $280 mark off the top of my head, but I can't recommend enough the 'set and forget' nature of the unit. In the last 12-15 months I recall it needing to be 'restarted' (once due to the phone line literally being severed between the street and the Modem) twice in that time.

(I also went 'the whole shebang' and bought the Fritz fon for VOIP, and when used together they are very easy to setup and use).

Draytek FTW

though I've since learned the hard way that this junk decomposes slowly but surely in my little corner of the world ever if it's not been used for a year or two.

I had that with a hard drive. Never used it, left it sitting in a drawer, came to use it one day, bam! it's dead. wtf?