If I had to choose a manufacturer, I quite liked my Asus Dark Knight router that I used a while ago.
Nowadays though, I do not have an off the shelf router...
- Unifi Ubiquiti Access Point covering wireless access
- HG612's on each FTTC circuit coming into the house... I tried ZyXEL modems, but was really disappointed with the performance.
- Routing is performed by a pfSense virtual machine that is connected to both WAN's and load balances. Multithreaded downloads use both circuits. Certain devices only use one circuit at a time, for example, Sky box is always directed to Sky FTTC. There's no benefit for dual WAN for this, so why use my AAISP quota for that?
However, going forward I am looking at building my own router with Gentoo. This is more for my own learning than anything else, plus it'd be cool to say I've truly built my own router from the ground up.
NB: These devices that everyone calls "Routers" - it is really a misnomer. Often these devices actually are Modems, Routers, Switches, and Wireless AP's all in one, yet they are all called Routers. It grinds my gears as a Network Engineer because I am used to dealing with a single box that just does "Routing"...