My 14 year old Linksys failed a couple of months ago (it should have died years ago - it was running in a closet that could run to 120 degrees in the summer), so I replaced it with a Linksys N900. I don't like the current UI, but otherwise no complaints. The wireless printer connected right up and prints from the phones (using
Cloud Print), the 2TB USB drive plugged in and ran from the start, and the router covers the entire property, corner to corner. (It's about half an acre.) If it lasts half as long as the old one (and this one's in an air-conditioned room), I'll be happy.
To give you an idea of the quality they build, my great grandkid found a Linksys router in the woods behind his house last spring. Wet, filled with flakes of dried leaves - filthy. I opened it up, shook it clean and closed it up. (One of the antennas was missing, the other one was broken at the base.) When my old one gave out I figured "what the heck?" and hooked up the one from the woods. It was late and cold and I didn't want to go out late in the evening to buy a new router.
We bought the new one a few days later. The old piece of junk from the woods is now clean and dry and in the "currently usable equipment" part of the workshop. Oh, it's a WRT-54. It's an OLD router.
D-Link used to be pretty good, too. I have a couple of their old ones, still working. Netgear? Not as good, but still okay for home use. I wouldn't go any lower than that.
(ASUS? A company that puts a PATA connector on the motherboard and then, when it doesn't work, tells me that the connector wasn't supposed to be working, has a LONG way to go to earn back any respect I might have had for them.)