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I'm looking for a new WiFi router, and one key feature for me is WOL. Seems like many routers won't do this w/ factory firmware.

Given my last router (Asus WL-520g) turned into a disco-brick couple hours after flashed DD-WRT I'd prefer if the new one supported WOL (Wake on LAN) out of the box.

Other required features would be:

  • DynDNS service support
  • Port forwarding
  • NAT loopback
    so I can access services running in my own network using dyndns hostname or public IP w/o getting too old (for example DIR-615 with factory firmware lets you wait literally minutes)
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If you had a bricked router I would suggest you to really have a look at dd-wrt forums as there are many developer there eager to support you to debrick the router. If you live in the europe you may even be able to have "professional debrick service" :P – bubu Jan 2 '11 at 14:58
Some clarification, port forwarding it for specific ports or applications to any number of hosts, virtual server or dmz host pushes all ports to a single host. Just so you know what differentiates those features. I agree with bubu though. If it ran DD-WRT, you might want to try unbricking it with a JTAG flash or something to that effect. – aking1012 Jan 2 '11 at 15:26
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Shopping advice is Off Topic on Super User. Why it is so. – Nifle Jan 2 '11 at 15:54
Judging by how badly this proposal is doing, people here don't want to answer shopping recommendation questions. – AndrejaKo Jan 2 '11 at 15:58
@bubu: i tried 30/30/30 restart, JTAG cable is the last hope, except that i don't have one, of course :) – Jaroslav Záruba Jan 2 '11 at 16:11
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closed as off topic by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, ChrisF, Nifle, digitxp, AndrejaKo Jan 2 '11 at 15:57

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