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I have been working on openwrt since the mid 2000s. (the work we did on that wifi project turned into a job for me at the embedded linux maker, montavista - greg stayed on the server side and made a pile, I didn´t) These days I don´t really feel the need to upgrade my wifi all that much, as newer products have less range, and I still have just a picostation and ubnt AGW (running modern openwrt on less than a watt) that suit most of my needs. Firewallwise, I tend to reflash an old laptop or a nuc to run openwrt also, so I can run at a gbit plus. Most home routers still cannot forward a gbit in both direction at the same time, so it has become best to go with a good box to the isp, and wifi near your principal work/play locations.

For all home routers today - strongly recommend the SQM smart queue management) system that is actually a derivative of what we developed at that house, circa 2002, on everything - fq_codel and cake can help modern wired and wireless tech a lot.