> Since this is the Linux Users Group, I would suggest that when you get
> fiber to the house that you change your router to a Linux router setup
> on a low end PC. You should still pick reliable parts, but you can find
> some old Pentium 3 or 4 for $50 that you could slap an extra network
> card in and be fine. It will be much more reliable and flexible. You
> can even use one of the free router/firewall distributions such as
> SmoothWall, pfSense, Endian, etc. There are a ton of them. The only
> thing is that it'd use more power than one of the home broadband
> routers.
I use an PC Engines ALIX board running pfSense and couldn't be happier:
http://pcengines.ch/alix2d1.htm
Very low power consumption and no moving parts. Uptime on mine is over
400 days now. I've had some power outages during that time, but even a
very small UPS will keep it running for a long time.
You should be able to find one for ~$100.
I have AT&T U-Verse and had to put the provided modem in some sort of
bridging mode before it would pass traffic to pfSense. Don't recall
the brand or model though.
Kevin
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