[krylon]

The only SOHO router I have seen whose vendor-supplied firmware did not totally suck is the Fritz!Box, and they are fairly expensive for what they do. But people seem to be willing to pay the price if that means they at least get a device that just works (tm), at least most of the time.

At work, we recently got a couple of wifi routers and installed DD-WRT on them to finally get a decent wireless network that spans the entire building, plus a guest network that is isolated from the company network. The freedom and flexibility DD-WRT offers made this both easy and - relatively - enjoyable.

(I do not own a Fritz!Box, and I never have. The last piece of equipment made by AVM I owned was a Fritz!Card ISDN card which sat in an ISA slot, so you can roughly figure out how long ago that must have been...)