[UnoriginalGuy]

It was good for its time, but has limited onboard RAM, limited storage, and pretty slow WiFi by modern standards (there are even faster G-band, let alone N). Wouldn't recommend it today, and certainly wouldn't recommend touching Linksys with a ten foot pole.

As to stability, I'd describe it has a mixed bag. I owned one for just under five years and had to do fortnightly restarts (which I eventually automated), and we also owned one at work which needed nightly reboots (DD-WRT provided that).

PS - In fairness to the work one, the building was insanely congested. It was one of these buildings which are shared by three dozens small businesses, and each had 1-2 WiFi networks, plus the local homes also. When you spun up a WiFi analyzer it could not find an empty piece of spectrum, and a lot of routes/APs would crash if you left the "find best frequency" option checked (as they would hop continuously and never find anything).

[jessewmc]

Do you have any particular recommendations for new(ish) consumer routers?

[UnoriginalGuy]

I buy Asus stuff then flash third party ROMs. Here's a massive list: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

If I was buying something today, it might be the Asus RT-AC66U (since it is a "compromise" between price/performance).

[beedogs]

I've got 3 Linksys E3000s that seem to be working fine with DD-WRT and Tomato. One's the main router, one's the VPN endpoint(s), and one's a spare.