This is what Mark is referring, to I believe, which spiked because of an instance of espionage.

My needs have been happily met by the a fore mentioned Linksys and an Asus WL520GU, running DD-WRT, and for the past few years the cleaner less feature rich Tomato. The Linksys is still chugging along at a co-workers house, and I know I bought that Linksys in mid-2006. The Asus was only bought in 2010 to see if I could use a cellphone as a modem with it - my Linux skills were not up to the task, and it gathered dust for a while.
Both of those routers wireless coverage covered our small house and reach well into the back yard. Granted neither is N or gigabit, but both meet the need of web browsing, Netflix streaming, and VOIP, from the 10 Mbit FiOS connection, and have done so without issue.