If you're willing to pay "decent money" for a router with auto-update, get some PC hardware (even as small as a WRAP or Soekris) and run pfSense. You'll never look back. I love OpenWRT but a $100 Netgear or Linksys device just can't touch a real PC motherboard with Intel NICs.
My preferred pfSense platform at both home and the office is a server-grade chassis running ESXi. My router runs in a VM on this server and I use vSwitches to connect the VM to the various ports on the 4-port Intel NIC.
I just built it like this for convenience (I already had the ESXi server) but I later found a side-benefit: if you've set up a DMZ on pfSense, you can easily attach VMs to the DMZ by associating them with the DMZ vSwitch. So, I have some untrusted VMs sitting in my DMZ and trusted VMs sitting on my LAN...all on the same piece of hardware.
I've been running this way since 2013 and it's been flawless and fast. More details here:
My preferred pfSense platform at both home and the office is a server-grade chassis running ESXi. My router runs in a VM on this server and I use vSwitches to connect the VM to the various ports on the 4-port Intel NIC.
I just built it like this for convenience (I already had the ESXi server) but I later found a side-benefit: if you've set up a DMZ on pfSense, you can easily attach VMs to the DMZ by associating them with the DMZ vSwitch. So, I have some untrusted VMs sitting in my DMZ and trusted VMs sitting on my LAN...all on the same piece of hardware.
I've been running this way since 2013 and it's been flawless and fast. More details here:
http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-al...