Router Supporting VPN or Firewall Recommendation

enigmo

enigmo

enigmo

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I'm after either a new router or a firewall/VPN appliance for home. I want to subscribe to a VPN service and want to have it configured on my network gear so it's completely platform agnostic, and any and all traffic is routed over it. To that end, a couple of questions:
I currently have a D-Link DIR-855. It's not the most stable beast in the world but does do everything I need apart from external VPN tunneling. Considering it cost me a packet and replacing it would similarly be expensive, do you guys think a new router or a seperate firewall box would be better?
If a seperate firewall box would be the best route, I already have lots of port forwarding, QoS, DHCP leases for 20+ devices and stuff set up on the D-Link. Would any of this be affected by having a firewall and VPN service outside that? Would a DynDNS client already running on my router also be affected?

Any recommendations on routers that would support this or SOHO firewall appliances that would do the same gratefully received.

ISP: Virgin cable
 
To use as just a firewall/VPN box outside my current router, or a replacement for my 855? That N16 doesn't look very powerful, like I'd be spending £50 to swap quadband wifi for VPN support and throughput less than half the speed of my current.
 
N16 is the modern equivalent of the wrt54gl. Cheap, flexible and highly robust with a reasonable amount of life in it (iirc wan throughput is ~155mb). Would be a perfectly fine endpoint.

If you're after a complete replacement the RT-N66U is the uncontested champ. Add whatever dd-wrt/tomato you want. Does everything.
 
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