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Just buy it pre-installed. Buffalo offers that on some models (DD-WRT).

almost no home router supports IPv6

That's much less true these days. Buffalo routers ship with DDWRT as the factory installed firmware, and that means they all support IPv6. I'm sure they aren't the only ones that do this. And at any rate, if ISPs would start renting out Buffalo routers to customers they would soon have IPv6 capable equipment on a lot of their networks.

Buy Buffalo. I have this router. It came with DD-WRT preinstalled, so it was a cinch to install Tomato over that. It's been solid as a rock, and, due to its excellent traffic shaping, I can barely tell when a torrent is downloading, when before, other traffic would slow to a crawl during peak hours.

It seems to me there's undo fascination with external drives. Yes people should do backups, and yes this is a gadget to easily get them there... but they're slower than internal drives and sometimes proprietary (how do you get at your data if the box dies?).

I can see using an external USB drive for backup if you intend to take it somewhere, often. If you leave it in house and have multiple PCs, use a consumer NAS solution (e.g., Buffalo, Infrant, D-Link). Otherwise, the best solution is to buy an internal drive and get backup software that you can schedule to run nightly (e.g., rsync). It's much cheaper, faster, more flexible from both a hardware and software perspective, and it sits safely in your case.. quiet, no blinking lights, and the cat can't knock it over.

Good choice - I picked up the inexpensive Buffalo WHR-G54S from Amazon for under $40 USD two weeks ago and had DD-WRT loaded and running in just under five minutes. The Buffalo routers are well-built, reliable, and actually broadcast a stronger signal than comparable Linksys models. It seems Newegg has it two bucks cheaper than Amazon this week, too... :)

How about this box? 1.2 TB (with RAID 5) in a neat little package. Since it's an embedded system, it should be ok in the noise/power usage department.

Unfortunately, I don't own one, so I don't know know if there are any "showstoppers"...

No disrespect meant to Erik, but I took a look around the hall of shame and it's not really as shocking as it first appears. Buffalo's wireless router has a statement at the bottom of the Linked page stating they comply with the GPL and source code is available. The PDF link appears to be an exact copy of the GPL, in PDF format, for some reason.

This leaves three products (counting the bottom three DVD players as one naughty entity) which appear to be breaking the GPL and are doing nothing about it. Considering Erik's 'Products' page, we're doing alright. It would seem that the other companies aren't really kicking up a fuss over having to have the source code available, maybe they just didn't read the GPL when they first used the code?

From the viewpoint of the code actually being used, I think this is a good thing. It represents a shift towards OS. A previous poster said that if even a small percentage give something back, we're doing pretty well. How many closed-source companies can claim to have had constructive feedback on their products that OS has the potential to enjoy?

Perhaps if we are receptive to this use of OS code, we will reap the rewards later when companies realise what a good deal they're getting? Patience is a virtue?

Bruce

What about Buffalo Technology? They seem good to me, and never had a problem with the stuff they put out...