I would personally suggest Linksys as this is built by the same company which build the industry standard Cisco routers.
A lot of the Linksys routers run Linux firmwear and as such can be hacked about to improve the performance and security.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1934567,00.asp

Linksys are the best residential routers around imho and can easily be tweaked for unbeatable performance and features for the price