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I'd be surprised if any DSL (not ADSL) router currently on sale with a daft-n spec was incompatible with cable. Older routers may have had inadequate speed ports for the ethernet connection but that might have been for "g" or earlier speeds. Today's routers should have at least a 100meg ethernet port capacity.

Stick to a well known and supported brand such as Linksys and you should be fine.

Note that wired speeds will usually be faster and more reliable than wireless simply because wireless can be affected by range and interference. A slight speed drop even on wired is always possible since your router adds and extra "hop" to the transmissions and also may include firewalls and things all of which the data has to bypass. For example my Linksys WRT610N maxes out around 18.5meg on my 20meg connection.

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You may of course be entitled to the Virgin Media supplied Netgear router, although I'm not sure that is pre-n