I need a new home router with plenty of power and good QOS capability and was wondering if anyone could recommend some. Here's the situation:

Right now I've got a Linksys WRT54G router connected to 2 computers, one mine and the other my roomates.

Our computers are networked so that we each have access to eachothers hard-disks, and we transfer large files fairly frequently.

My roomate runs Azureus non-stop and it totally eats up all the bandwidth, so it takes forever to web browse, and the router actually freezes up when under heavier loads.

So I'm looking for a router with QOS that actually works, so I can play online games, VOIP, and web browse at a decent speed, while he's running Azureus. The QOS on my router does not seem to work at all. I'm guessing because it's port-based, and the out-going connections use random ports?

I don't know much about QOS, but there has to be some way routers can prioritize other than ports.

So can anyone recommend me a good home router with a QOS that would work, and not lock up? And what features should I look for?

Before I gave up on the WRT54G, I'd try a third party firmware and see if the bandwidth throttling works better from those firmwares. Try DD-WRT or OpenWRT. Here's a QOS howto from the DD-WRT wiki.

While I was reading about DD-WRT, it turns out I have V5 which has had it's balls removed (they called it neutered ). The website said that it's really not worth installing.

So, I'm still in need of a router.

use pfsense as a router (pfsense.com) it has the best traffic shaping (qos) i have experienced so far.. The only thing, it requires a standalone computer.

I use a Thomson speedtouch 536v6 ADSL router that supports QoS and works fine so far. QoS is nice for general use, i.e. when you use P2P, web, e-mail and VoIP simultaneously, however some games are very sensitive to latency (FPS) and would be best run without anything else occupying the connection (QoS adds jitter to the connection or about 30 ms latency).

I used to use an old 700mhz box for a router, but it used too much electric. After a bunch of surfing, I ordered a d-link xtreme wireless n router. It's qos looks pretty good. I'll let you guys know how it works when I get it, thanks.

Got the router configured today and it's Qos works better than I expected. Web browsing was a little slow, with the automatic settings, but after I set bittorrents ports to the lowest priority, and http and ftp ports to medium it worked great. And it runs games like I don't have any other traffic. It's a great router.