Will the purchase of a high quality router prevent connections from dropping on my modem?

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RockFellOnHer
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Will the purchase of a high quality router prevent connections from dropping on my modem?

Current setup:

Verizon FIOS 25 mb down/ 10 mb up
Standard Verizon wireless modem/router

 Potential Upgrade:

WNR3500L

 

 What I'm wondering:

If currently when using P2P my connection drops far too often, will upgrading to the WNR3500L fix this problem? From what I can tell, the root the issue is that the cheap Verizon modem/router doesn't have enough memory to handle any decent amount of connections.

 If I upgrade to the WNR3500L with 64 megs of RAM will this serve to prevent the existing modem from being flooding with too many connections and crash? Or do I need to upgrade to a higher quality modem as well?

disgrace
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I've found that most

I've found that most integrated modem/wireless router devices are terrible. They often suffer from bad performance or crashes like you refer to.

Whenever I subscribe to dsl or cable, I use the most basic modem device i can find (anything that only acts as a dumb modem with no features like NAT, wireless, etc) and then use some custom configured router (linux machine, old school linksys wrt54g v2.2 w/ dd-wrt, and my recent upgrade to the netgear 3500L w/ dd-wrt)

these setups generally give you the most stability and performance.