WRT-610N Shopping but skeptical about Linksys products

Shopping for a draft-n, simultaneous dual-band router with USB or Firewire storage link and excellent security features. It must have gigabit LAN ports, a solid firewall, WPA2, 5GHz and 2.4Ghz that operate simultaneously, MAC address filtering, etc ...Like the WRT 610N.
As far as features, the WRT 610N keeps coming up time and again. However, the reviews and numerous forum posts indicate a product that has a number of flaws. These reviews and forum posts have thus far kept me from pulling the trigger on the 610.
Has Linksys fixed the reported problems with this unit? Is there another alternative to this router that has these features? Another concern is the throughput. I've used Linksys products before and have never experienced problems like the ones I've seen described about the WRT 610N.
Any insight would be appreciated as I would like to buy a router immediately. Thanks in advance.
(Mod note: Edited for guideline compliance. Thank you.)
Message Edited by Vince_02 on 07-31-2009 08:35 AM

WRT610N Router is a one of the good N-Series Router...It will not give you any problem if setup in a proper way...
The features like Dual Band(2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) , firewall, WPA2, MAC address filtering also present in the other N-Series Router like....WRT110,WRT160N,WRT320N....etc

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