How reliable is the HH3?

Will soon be on my 3rd HH2 as the replacement one now decides to restart itself when ever I look at the adsl stats so wanted to see here if it's worth while me buying or trying to get BT India to send out a HH3 instead.
So how reliable are you guys finding them?

I've only had the HH3 for 4 days (new to the HH and to BT). The HH3 doesn't have a modem built-in, so in that sense it is not a direct replacement for the HH2 which does I believe?
The wireless is pretty good - a wireless-N device - except that it's not simultaneous dual band (ok, I was hoping) - either 40Hz or 20Hz, not both it seems. I also had problems getting two smart(ish) phones to connect reliably (Nokia E65 and Nokia C3 - which just wouldn't connect). This may be partly the phones fault, but anyway, I actually got around this by connecting my old (US Robotics) router and enabling a 2nd wireless network!?
You can connect a USB mass storage device. Does the HH2 have USB?
There are no flashing lights indicating activity, just 3 steady blue ones - although that's not got much to do with reliability!

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