What to use as an ADSL modem for Airport Express/Extreme?

I am in the UK. My broadband comes down the telephone line. What modem should I use to connect to an Airport Express or Airport Extreme router?

My ISP is Demon, which is now owned by Vodafone. I telephoned Demon and was told (a) that it only supplies the Technicolor TG582n as a courtesy (b) that it supplies no other hardware (c) that I might be able to make the TG582n work in bridge mode but that Demon provides no support for that - meaning no help or advice either (d) that any router bought off-the-shelf in the UK which supports ADSL 2+ will be compatible with Demon's service and (e) that any modem which supports ADSL 2+ should also therefore work. Pressed by me for the names of routers that other clients of Demon's use, I was told that these included routers manufactured by Netgear, Cisco and Draytek but that this is not an exhaustive list.
In summary, Demon says that any off-the-shelf modem that supports ADSL 2+ should work.
To return to the question that I first asked, therefore, I would be grateful if anyone can give me the names of any ADSL 2+ modems which work optimally with Airports Express or Extreme.
If anyone reading this post has any experience they can share, that would be very kind and much appreciated.
If any ADSL 2+ modem will do as well as another, it would be helpful to know that also.
David

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Hi Thanks for your reply. Basically I want to create a wireless network with the airport express to run more than one computer off. so what else would I need? Previously I used the airport express and a D-Link 300-T ADSL Modem. However I had trouble running more than one computer off it.
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bob0099 wrote:
What I'm considering in a few months, when my Verizon contract is up, is to drop all service except high speed internet from Verizon. Then I could use the coax currently connected to the TV instead to connect to a modem or MoCA device which would output CAT5 ethernet to the HTPC extender.
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bob0099 wrote:
From what I can gather, a MoCA connection is preferable to a powerline network and maybe even better than running a long CAT5/CAT6 cable from room to room, which I don't want to do.
A cat5 connection is most preferable. Second the MOCA. Third is powerline networking.
bob0099 wrote:
There is an Actiontec MoCA device available that claims to 'convert' from coax cable internet input to ethernet output. Would this work to supply the Ceton extender using the FiOS coax that currently supplies TV signals to my Verizon set-top box?
There are a number of available MOCA adapters.
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That Zoom cable modem won't work. MOCA and DOCSIS are two completely different technologies.
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