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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2014, in 2 comments.
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The cheapest available model listed in OpenWRT's table of (supported) hardware. Then flash it with OpenWRT and all's fine (mostly).
E.g. TP-Link's WR841N for 20 dollars:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FWYGJS http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd
These are the best SBC routers on the market. It used to be between Soekris and pcengines, but Soekris dropped the ball.
and the enclosures are also very nice too
http://pcengines.ch/apu.htm http://pcengines.ch/case1d2u.htm
It uses coreboot, which you can recompile from source to be reasonably sure no BIOS backdoors, and it also has a hard firmware flash write jumper (thanks to me)... to make sure your recompiled BIOS doesn't get overwritten remotely when a vulnerability is found in your OS (easy with coreboot if you leave the .config in the firmware image which is the default). I suggest you run the latest OpenBSD, and add the NEUG USB RNG. This is a dream machine. 64bit 1ghz dual core... up to 4 gigs of ram,low power, great great design, two PCIe card slots, gig eth. The best. And I have tried everything.
Building your own PC tower as a firewall, well been there. Its not the way. Fun project sure, but wasteful and inefficient.
There are a few really good cheap routers that can run OpenWRT amazingly fast ie.
http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Wireless-Router-300M...
If you
1. add the packet shaping module and fill in your modems speed
2. replace the routers /etc/hosts file to block all internet advertising inc youtube ads with this ;
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
and 3. change the DNS to googles 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Then you have the ultimate home router setup. But if you want secure / vpn / tor bridge etc then you need to go to the above mentioned with OpenBSD and be careful to buy a compatible wifi PCIe card.