AvoK95 wroteyasamoka wroteAvoK95 wroteMy friend is very happy with his router and he claims that he get no lag while gaming online on his Xbox 360.
How can any router cause perceptible lag if he's running an Xbox 360, which is most probably wired?
Actually it's wireless.
I recommended this modem to him because it will give better pings then those crappy "SpeedTouch" Thomsons
^^Definitely true, that.
@m_zeid: very interesting question! We should research this.
You see, the problem with running a PC as a router is that it consumes too much power at idle compared with a router. Only netbooks can come close to a router's power consumption, and those are usually limited with their motherboards, etc...
The more you want to save, you would want to run an old PC as a router (probably an obsolete PC), which would mean power efficiency is practically low. The running costs of such a PC would easily be higher than the cost of a premium router (with OpenWRT, for example), most probably even in 1-2 years.
The primary reason why it is recommended to use a PC as a router is when you've got some file-sharing to do, or some complex bandwidth shaping, etc...where the router's CPU / RAM is simply insufficient. But even for most tasks at home, a PC file server, and a router for better connectivity, is recommended over a purely PC router.
Just my 2 cents.
EDIT: However, if RouterOS can be run in a virtual machine, with a minimal amount of RAM allocated to it, on a 24/7 PC, it would be an amazing idea, I think.