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I dropped a hardware router a long time ago.  I had one of the first
linksys routers that seemed slow.  Went to a "whitebox router" using
maybe ipcop or something.  Then i built up my own from a debian install
and that's run for a couple years now, very responsive, and no problems
with several thousand connections (torrents)

All that being said, i've recently tried pfsense
<http://www.pfsense.org/>.  It's basically monowall but while monowall
was designed to run on embeded systems, pfsense was designed to be
installed in a standard computer that you want to turn into a router.  I
tried it out and haven't looked back.  It has no problems handling a lot
of connections, has built in OpenVPN support, packet shaping, and all
that other fun network stuff.  It's free and you can run it off the cd
or install it to the hard drive (recommended if you decide to keep it).
 It can handle PPPoE (what your dsl probably uses) and do dns updates
through DynDNS and a few other services.

Since this was just a standard computer with two NICs in it (external
and internal) I have a separate netgear wireless router that I just have
an internal ip address and use it as wireless access point and it works
fine.

This sollution may be a little more complicated than what you're looking
at, especially if you don't have an old computer laying around, but for
more "power users" I would recommend something like this.

Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> OK, now I'm annoyed with my ADSL router as it's giving me grief in  
> other areas, not only the timekeeping aspect.
> 
> I need a wireless ADSL router (i.e. with an ADSL modem built in) -  
> can someone recommend me one that can cope with the traffic from  
> being part of the NTP pool.  Being able to update it with the Tomato  
> or DD-WRT would be an advantage.
> 
> I'm looking to buy one off eBay if I must.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks very much for your time!
> 
> Regards - Piers
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