I'm changing from NTL phone & cable broadband back to BT phone line and ADSL broadband (probably) with Zen.

I currently have a Linksys WRT54G router, which i would like to keep and use with the ADSL connection.

I think i need a ADSL modem (Zen dont supply one, only sell them) and i would like an ethernet model to use with the WRT54G router.

Can anyone recommend one / use one themselves? I have only seen a few available like the D-Link DSL-300T. Most appear to be combined with a router, which i dont need.

Any suggestions please?

Go for Netgear - http://www.netgear.co.uk/routers_adsl_broadband_wireless.php

You might have little choice when it comes to features - it's pretty standard for them to have wireless APs and routing functionality...

(Others will no doubt suggest linksys which are just as good)

I have a "spare" combined router\ modem, but you can just configure the router to passthru everything, and let your existing router look after traffic.

Ian,

What model is it? Does it have 4 ports? and more importantly, how much?

At the moment i use all PC's wirelessly, however since the phone ext is in the same room as the PC's i can now use them wired with a combined ADSL/router and power the wireless router when required.

I'll have a look tonight and post up the specs...

I couldn't use it as it has normal RJ11 input, and my NTL uses BNC to the NTL200 modem, and it could not make sense of a WAN input on it's raw adsl input...

if that makes sense

Cheers Ian,

PM me the spec if you can, although i wont need one till next week.

Looking on ebay for something cheap, but theres a lot of cr4p out there!

You may be able to use the DLink 300 - but you'd have to check if your wireless router is compatible with it. It works by a few tricks, a lot of them won't work.

If you go down the ADSL router (wired) and connect through to your current wireless router, then you will need public IPs. Zen does a block of 8 for 'free' if you order it like that. You can then assign on of those IPs to your existing router and leave the remainder of your network alone.

Easiest solution by far though is to flog your existing wireless router, and buy a new wireless ADSL router instead.

Ok, forgot about another I had also...

You have two choices:

1) BT broadband USB ADSL modem (voyager).

ADSL RJ11 input, USB out... thats it.

Simply answering the question...

Allied Data Copperjet 800 or 801 are good stand-alone ADSL modems.

D-Link 300T...very simple to set-up.

I know you'd still like to use the WRT54G Broadband router but with the cost of the modem you might as well get an ADSL Router.

Probably go for a DG834 then.

I've been after an excuse to upgrade the PC's for a while, can do a big online order now:D

Thanks for help all.

Grab the non-USB thing anytime.. - it's stable, it has a built-in firewall which always works rather than post-windows startup, and generally you'll have less grief if/when you want to share the connection

Had a change of mind after posting..............

I am still a bit of a beginner when it comes to networking, so......

As i only need the wireless connection when my parents use their PC downstairs, which is not often, i dont want to be beaming out wireless all the time.

Could i use the WRT54G as an access point for their PC, and only switch it on when needed? How would the IP address work if assigned by DHCP?

I'm off to do some googling.

You can turn the wireless access point on and off as you want via the web-based interface. I'd just leave it on (with WEP/WPA) and be done with it.

For the DHCP you should be able to set the range, e.g. 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.99, as well as reserving IPs for machines based on their mac address (my xbox always gets the same IP as I have port forwarding set up for it, for example).