infernon: I bricked mine by loading the wrong firmware on it.

I try to pushing clients into higher end stuff like Sonicwalls or Smoothwall anymore for the sake of quality. $50-60 for a network gateway (router) puts you in a piece of junk, whatever brand.
I couldn't agree more. I mine just for wifi access for my laptop(s). I don't use it as a border device.

I do, however, prefer linksys to most of the other cheap routers out there.