Asus RT-N16

I haven't had much luck with routers since I "upgraded" from my uber Dlink gaming router a couple years ago. I wanted an N router that reached to every corner of the house. The Belkin N+ was supposedly one of the best. It seemed to be a good router for awhile, until I noticed it was dropping my internet connection to all connected clients every so often (less than an hour between dropouts, on average) for a few seconds. Even if there was only one computer connected via ethernet, and it was in the DMZ... same problem. Tried different firmware, and even exchanged for a newer revision (from v1000 to v2000): same problem. Apparently a v3000 is out now, so might try exchanging it again, but my new router for now is the Asus RT-N16. It initially seemed fine, albeit less throughput than the Belkin, but there seems to be some QOS issues in Asus's firmware. After a week of use, it would assign all resources to just one download, regardless of how I configured the QOS settings: if I was downloading anything, I couldn't open a page or start another download. Since Asus was still sitting on their release firmware, I tried DD-WRT. It works. Wonderfully. The RT-N16 still doesn't have the raw throughput of the Belkin, but the QOS works beautifully: torrents and gaming can exist side-by-side now!

I didn't want to post any positive news until it had proved itself, but it's been around a month since the DD-WRT flash, so I feel I can safely say it's recommended now.