Cable router and standalone ethernet modem
 

I'm a uni student, and I need to buy a router for this October, to share an internet connection with my housemates. This will almost certainly be ADSL, for example, with BT or Tiscali.
But here at home, i've got ntl's 1 meg BB through STB, and i'm sick of rooting around the back of the STB to swap ethernet cables, then resetting the STB so i can browse the internet on my laptop in the lounge. The other PC in the house is normally connected by ethernet to the STB.

So i'm thinking I could kill two birds in one stone here, if I got a wireless cable router, and got a cheap ethernet ADSL modem, then i'd be able to use the router both at home and at uni.

However, looking at the sticky, this method is apparently not advised.

Can I have some further thoughts on this? It seems the most cost-effective way to me, but maybe there are some other issues that i'm unaware of.

Re: Cable router and standalone ethernet modem
 

You wont want an ADSL modem while you are on cable, and a combined ADSL modem with router won't work on cable. Thus a simple wireless router such as the Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GS will meet your current cable boradband networking needs.

If or when you move onto ADSL you just connect an ADSL modem ot the WAN ethernet port of the router, instead of the connection that came formt he boradband modem. All you have to watch for is that the modem you have for ADSL does have an ethernet port, as many of those that are supplied as bundles by the ISPs are USB based.