Just look for anything that can run wrt on it.

Personally, I replaced my cisco asa with a netgear r7000, dual core arm, gig of ram, usb3 ports, gig, and I'm actually quite happier with it for around $200 new (2 years ago).  I still keep my wlan controller around for multiple ap's around my house in lwapp, never used the on-board wifi, but supposedly does AC decently. This is almost a clone of the Asus rt8x series for internal hardware (without asus' odd form-factor).

Oddly, I'll stop by my local goodwill for book scavenging occasionally, and will rifle through their routers.  I've actually found a few nice a/b/g/n routers that are still very useful with a clean wrt image on it, and I've given to friend and family to (finally) retire their 2002 wrt54g's - for ~7 bucks.  Last I'd found was a dual band cisco router that would take a full (non-mini) wrt image to do openvpn, graphite, etc on it. 

I imagine the routers going "bad" are usually only their kids torrenting and blasting their little processors with 100k pps.

Shop with the wrt wiki, go find them on ebay, cl, or goodwill near you for a deal.

-mb


On 02/17/2016 09:05 PM, Todd Millecam wrote:
I like anything branded buffalo DD-WRT for home use

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

Personal experience the ASUS rt66u is great as well as the netgear wndr 3700.i currently run the netgear c7000 wich i got for Cox ultimate and gigablast compatability.

On Feb 17, 2016 6:30 PM, "Mark Jarvis" <m.jarvis@cox.net> wrote:

My home has Cox internet connected to a router that has wired connections for two desktop machines which are online most of the time, a captioned phone and wireless for a laptop. The router is 3 years old and has started to go effectively off line every two or three days and need rebooting. It's probably time to think about a new router. Any recommendations?

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