a buddy from a certain 3dfx newsgroup read what i had posted about never having a decent router, so he hooked me up with this router pretty cheap:
it’s a Linksys BEFSR41 v3.
here you can read some of the product information:
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=561
(it turned out to be a real shitty router)