BTMM - DSL modem or router issue?

Having read many and sundry posts and support articles about BTMM, I am to the point of wondering what will work.
Posts and support articles say the routers must support UPnP or NAT-PMP and the "Third-party router devices that work with Back to My Mac" list, which seems to be getting smaller rather than larger, list routers and only mentions modem in one footnote.
So does the router or DSL modem need to support UPnP or NAT-PMP?
Are any of the routers mentioned on the list also DSL modems?
Dose anyone have a DSL Router/Modem that is working?
Thanks

Greetings,
I use BTMM all the time with Airport Extreme Base Stations and a couple of different model Netgear devices at other locations, so it's AEBS to AEBS, AEBS to Netgear, and Netgear to AEBS - I also use it to connect to and from Aruba and Cisco equipment.
I use the UPnP and NAT-PMP built in services for the most part, but in the corporate stuff, I had to create a rule and map it out on the Corporate Checkpoint Firewall and on the Cisco Corporate Routers.
I like the little home/small business routers, as UPnP and NAT-PMP make as easy as it could ever be.
Good Luck - Cheers,
M.

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