I suspect the responses were caused by eyes glazing over when your first complaint wasn't losing connection but losing 1/60th of your download speed due to the router. That really isn't a big deal however you cut it.
Anyway onto the subject in hand. The VM router is cheap, buy a different one, it can have problems when heavily used through newsgroups or P2P.
If you have a problem with losing 100kB on a 6MB/s service I'd consider going to
http://www.cisco.com or
http://www.juniper.com with a fair amount of cash in your pocket.