Re: Home Router Suggestions Please...

I'm using dd-wrt on various linksys routers and have found it to be pretty rock solid. I have a client with Checkpoint VPN software (Checkpoint's really annoying btw) and use it just fine with this router firmware but otherwise I don't use VPN so I can't really comment much beyond that.

I haven't yet found non-Apple solutions supporting jhfs+ however. Linux support for hfs+ is read/write, but by default it mounts jhfs+ volumes read only. If you're going to attached USB flash storage you might as well just stick with FAT32 and then you've got read/write support built into the router, and also if you need to yank it and directly plug it into a Mac. 

If you need more storage like for a Time Machine backup, I think you're better off with NAS that explicitly supports Time Machine backups - i.e. it has the latest version of Netatalk. In that case Time Machine will create and use a disk image on that remote storage, containing a jhfs+ formatted volume. The underlying file system would most likely be ext4, and be more reliable than FAT32, NTFS, or (j)hfs+, but Time Machine won't care or even know about it.