[Lancaster] looking for a good wifi router

[andy baxter]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a good wifi router with a decent control panel (e.g. for 
setting up custom firewall and port forwarding rules), a few ethernet 
ports, and ideally the ability to flash custom firmware if I ever decide 
to do so. Long range would be nice but not essential. My current router 
is a cheapo netgear one from Orange, and it's becoming unusable (for 
some reason it keeps disconnecting when I work on a remote server from 
home over ssh).

Can anyone suggest a suitable device?

Thanks,

andy