Yeah DSL can be faster, but you also have to keep in mind that with DSL you need to be geographically close to the phone company or else the speed decreases rapidly.
About the routers, yes of course it depends on where you live, but since he specifically said US dollars, I assumed he is in the US. In the US, according to pricegrabber, you can get a 4 port Linksys router for $40.
Also about Netgear, I misstated, the Netgear router is not hard to setup, it was just sometimes a pain to configure, granted it was a while ago, but the web browser configuration interface was kind of hard to understand to me. But I do prefer Linksys, even more so since they were bought by Cisco, because Cisco is _the_ company for high-end routers, so hopefully they'll bring some of their high-tech router features to the home/small business solutions offered by Linksys.
