I have had a nightmare with linksys when I lived in the states, and their build quality leaves alot to be desired.
I have had my belkin at 3 different properties now, right from living on the doorstep of the exchange to living a few miles away and only being able to achieve 1.9mbps on an 8mbps service. I have never had the intermittent reset problem - occaisonally in bad weather it as dropped the connection and reconnected at a lower speed but never required any manual interference.
I guess we all have our preferred vendors - but if you read the reviews and research what your buying you should not go far wrong with any of them.