While an old PC is certainly good hardware spec-wise, they aren't good in the noise, space, and power consumption areas. If you're going to buy something, get s

While an old PC is certainly good hardware spec-wise, they aren't good in the noise, space, and power consumption areas. If you're going to buy something, get something that won't have it's caps blow in 6 months. I recently got a PC Engines Alix [1]. It's not as cheap as a consumer router but it's got good specs and runs the latest OpenWRT with no problems. Most of all, it's as small, unobtrusive, and fan-less as a consumer router. There's a mini-pci slot so you can add wireless, but I have an airport express and so I'm just using that in bridge mode for my wireless. [1] http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm