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Re: Which Router
But, in my experience, most people won't need to forward more than a few ports (certainly nowhere near 1000 - in fact if you have 1000 ports forwarded, you might as well have no firewall as that is a massive security hole).
The other problem is power consumption. An all in one router generally consumes less than 50 w of power. A low-end PC will consume 150W up. Combine that with the power consumption of the switch (which is likely to equal that of a router), any access points and the need for extra power sockets.
Oh, and routers (even wireless ones) start at around £40 for a linksys, or lower for unbranded ones.
Using a linux system may well be better (although bear in mind that the WRT54G runs a variant of Linux, and has open source OSes available), but it certainly isn't cheaper.
BTW, my old D-link managed over 5 months of uptime without a single crash or network failure.
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