personally myself i own a cisco 1800 series. the best router i have ever used. not recommended unless you know a little bit about ios. you have to telnet into it on initial setup. anyway it's been up for 4 months straight. not a single crash or hang up. I work for a ISP so i got a great deal on it. but as for your problem first before trashing the router check for firmware updates. the company i work for does FTTH. fiber to the home and we install cheap 4 port dlink routers inside the house. we have  had so many problems and service calls due to those routers 2 years ago, UNTIL dlink updated the firmware. now they work very well. unfortunately for us someone in ordering department thought they were to expensive and we switched routers. we now use intellinet routers. and they are god awful. those things have to be the worst router i have ever used. you get the thing configured and 5 mins later it crashes. reboot. up for 10 mins then crashes. reboot again could crash in another 10 mins or stay up for 5 hours. So On some sites they switched to linksys 4 port box routers. they look like the 4 port dlink switches. grey metal case and those work really well. it's something like RV042.

the hardest ones i have played has to be Wasteland and Bard's Tale 2.
wasteland has to be one of the best turn based RPG's i have ever played. but very hard to get started. You would get ripped and beaten into a pulp the fist 5 exp levels if your not careful.

bards tale 2 was just a pain in the ass. every dungeon had fall through floors that a level 30 dragon\creature would spawn on. or if you stepped on a the wrong tile it would teleport  you to the entrance of the dungeon. or tiles that would spin you around and shift you in a different direction. i dont know it's strange those games were exciting because you never knew if you you were going to get your butt kicked by a random mob even if you were high level. SO ANti Oblivion or MMORPG's.

for me it depends on the show. I am american and I dont speak japanese. but some shows I prefer subbed. the dub of Love hina is bad. same with now and then here and there.  and Lain. I know these are older animes. but the voice acting seems so much better in japanese. only new dub i've seen is Tales of Earthsea. which I thought was well done. and have to say I prefer the dub releases of Ghibli movies. and I guess it had to do with the quality. since they are released by disney you would expect professional voice acting and a quality dub.