My old Dlink DIR-655 router is dead as of this morning. I'm looking to find a Linux friendly gaming router and am hoping you folks might have some good suggestions for me. Off the top of my head, it feels like any router should do, but erring to the side of caution, I'm hoping to hear your thoughts on the matter.

I'm not sure about linux compability but NETGEAR DG834Gv5 or newer works for me.

There was another recent thread on this topic...can't seem to find it atm

I highly recommend ASUS products and I think that was mentioned in that thread.

My experience with ASUS products have been very bad. LOL. Every ASUS device I've had died very quickly. Must be the weather. LOL. Thanks for the suggestion. A quick google tells me I should probably avoid.
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=54507

Good man!!. Ive had one for years now :) Netgear's, Belkin & Netcomms avoid... most are pretty crap

I have one old Linksys router here with me which has outlasted my DLink so it's an interesting option. The only trouble I've had my Linksys router is when I updated the firmware. It broke the wifi. It's certainly still an option.

From what i know, their quality used to be better before Cisco bought them out (im almost sure they are sold off again...have to google i guess)

I didn't like that their firmware updates involved looking at the revision of their router and there's like 7 of them... and 7 different firmware updates. Kinda nutty.

Any router will do. It's a network device. It moves packets. Unless you were looking to flash it to dd-wrt or something.

It doesn't. Gone sufficiently wrong you can brick the router. Usually, you can reflash or revert the firmware though.

I was certain to have double checked and triple checked it before I did the update. But alas, it was not to be. When I did the 60/60/60 power cycle, the router refused to let go of my old settings. It's kinda half dead but not really.

I'm currently using an ASUS Dark Knight model. It's having no problem sharing our bandwidth between two desktops, 3 360s, a Wii, our printer, a laptop, two smartphones and a tablet. No real lag or slowdown, it's fast and I almost never have less than a full bar signal from anywhere in the house, and even the back yard for that matter.

We'd upgraded from a D-Link that simply couldn't handle the workload we put on it, but the Dark Knight has pretty much taken everything we've thrown at it in stride thus far. It also has cloud back up, hardware firewalling, custom server setup if you're wanting to do that kind of thing.

Tbh, I haven't even scratched the surface of this thing yet. >.>

I believe Belkin bought Linksys from Cisco, so they may still be on the do not buy list.

My last Linksys router was the WRT350N. So, I have no experience with the Cisco Linksys. However, I did not like how your settings were not built-in to the firmware and were stored in the cloud. Not sure if they finally backed out of that fiasco, but I have stayed away from any router that used the term Cloud. Asus is my go to brand right now, with their new AC router. I also have a N10+ that is currently unused, but was one I picked up cheap during a sale and tided me over after my WRT350N died (not really died but had to reset every few hours).

I'm placing an order for D-Link 636L due to a recommendation from my friend. Seems like a fancy router.