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Originally Posted by Paul M

The "free" VM router is still sitting in its box, as I also already have one. That said, my current linksys does seem to have a problem with 50M and needs to be rebooted every few days otherwise it slows down, so Im thinking about getting the VM router out of its box and giving it a trial spin.

Which Linksys do you have? WRT54G(L)? I noticed this too, and it will only "cope" with 50Mbps using Tomato firmware. Others (eg DD-WRT) only give around 30Mbps WAN>LAN. The DIR-615 is good for what it is, but be aware it too chokes every couple of days or so, and needs rebooting. Contrary to the WRT with Tomato, the 615 from VM is limited to around 30 connections, so it soon falls over with heavy use (downloading etc).

I'm looking to get a Netgear WNR3500L when they're out this month; waaay more horsepower on board, much more RAM, and also Tomato & DD-WRT compatible.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by SmallNetBuilder

It runs on a 480 MHz MIPS 74K CPU core with embedded hardware acceleration, 8 MB of flash and 64 MB of RAM. NETGEAR says the WNR3500L supports 350 Mbps of download wired routing throughput.

See also MyOpenRouter for more info. It looks like it's gonna be a monster with great routing and throughput (WLAN>LAN and LAN>WLAN).