Router suggestion

["Mark Richards-3" <user=151@nabble.blu.org>]

 A few years ago having upgraded my ADSL service to fiber, I determined 
that a better router was needed.  Something that could do a bit more and 
handle the data rate.  Stupidly taking the 10/100 ethernet port to mean 
quite literally that (at 100mb/s) the WAN port could sustain a 100mb/s 
data rate, I went ahead and purchased a Netgear FR114p.  Beyond just "Oops". 

The result: the circuit seemed to top out at around 11.5mb/s WAN to LAN. 
  The little D-link box that Verizon supplied (a plastic thing that 
belies its capability) worked fine. 

So I called Netgear (more than once) and it seemed no one knew, or would 
admit, exactly what their box was capable of doing.  Finally, an 
engineer admitted that I was correct.  In the end, there was nothing 
they would (or apparently could) do to make it right. 

So now, a few years later, I'm still seeking a router (with SPI this 
time) that will do the trick.  It's somewhat (energy) inefficient to run 
a dedicated linux box with iptables to do the task, so I again looked at 
Netgear.  They seem to have adjusted their literature a bit, so I now 
see some of their boxes with LAN to WAN speeds noted.  Still, the only 
one of their units I'm interested in, the FVS336G, offers "LAN-to-WAN: 
60 Mbps total".  There's no WAN to LAN spec and I suspect should I call 
them they will still not know. 

Any recommendations as to alternatives?  My circuit provides 20mb/s down. 



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