Consider Asus + tomato[1]. I setup one years ago with the Asus RT-N16 and haven't looked back since. Makes things like QoS a breeze. Yes, it's somewhat of a pa

Consider Asus + tomato[1]. I setup one years ago with the Asus RT-N16 and haven't looked back since. Makes things like QoS a breeze. Yes, it's somewhat of a pain to setup, but once that's done you have a superb, reliable hardware+ software combination that will perform reliably for years. You can dig into more advanced customisations quite easily afterwards if you like, such as VPN client at the router level. [1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/because-everyone-still-needs-a...