In France, this need have been killed by the ISP themself. Is there any ISP in the US who does that ?
Free (a ISP) started in 2002. It's a home-made modem router, who also does TV and Phone. Since that almost all others French ISP have created their *box (Livebox, BBox, AliceBox, Neufbox, …).
I have freebox too but I still use a linksys wrt54g router with Tomato behind their router (which can be disabled btw) and I have great results. No resets, no slowdowns, uptime is very high and the wireless works well enough for my needs. There might be a little bottleneck in the wifi cause the chip is a bit older but it compensates with the fact that is very reliable. So I would recommend Tomato and Linksys over any ISP provided router.
Free (a ISP) started in 2002. It's a home-made modem router, who also does TV and Phone. Since that almost all others French ISP have created their *box (Livebox, BBox, AliceBox, Neufbox, …).