Need a router, any recomendations?

Dodge

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I am flood wiring our new house with CAT5, already have a Netgear gigabit switch and a Netgear POE wireless access point. What I cant decide on is a suitable firewall router. I propose to shift the Virgin cable service to the new house, so it needs to be compatible with a separate cable modem (or Virgin Fibre). May consider ADSL but we have been using the same e-mail addresses for 10 years and dont want to change them!

We will have a gaming room where we want to hold LAN parties, so a router\firewall that is easy to open ports to allow gaming.

At a loss, any ideas?

Roger
 
Looks ok, but does not need to have wireless as I will be using the Netgear POE access point located in the roof space, why the Tomato firmware? Does this firmware make changing ports easier?

Thanks
 
Tomato firmware rocks mate, simple as lol So many improvements (kernel, hash table, etc) over the stock firmware. Everyone on here swears by it, me included. In fact, hand on heart, I don't know ANYONE who runs stock firmware on a WRT54GL, they were DESIGNED for custom firmware :D

They're rock solid routers, totally stable, and handle high loads (LAN parties, P2P etc) perfectly. You can easily disable wireless if you so wish, just untick the box in Tomato and hit save/apply. Best value for money out there, and about the only router worth considering for your circumstances imho.

EDIT: Sorry I'm eating an Indian (chicken korai lol) so rushing a bit too much... Tomato also has tons of improvements like ajax real-time bandwidth monitors for the WAN, ETH0-4, wifi etc, QoS, great logging, tons of stuff. Much more to play with than the standard firmware - take a look around their site for some nice screenies :D
 
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