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Buy the Asus. Asus hardware has a good rep. Posted from Anandtech.com App for Android

I've had good luck running Ubuntu server v.12.04 with Zentyal mgm't interface. Zentyal gives me a GUI much like a NAS unit. I installed a no-name SATA raid card in a Dell Poweredge SC420 (obsolete salvage) and run two 1gb drives as a RAID1 so even if I lost a drive or the server died, a...

It would likely need to be hardwired, but even then a wrt54g is going to be slow streaming movies. You probably need something newer to stream big files.

Open a couple of DOS windows (cmd command) if your running Windows. Run a continuous ping on the router itself (ex., ping -t 192.168.1.1) in one window, and a continuous ping on yahoo.com or google.com (ex., ping -t www.yahoo.com). Cable TV ISP's like Comcast and Time-Warner often suffer lags...