Goodbye NetGear, Hello Linksys!

I've had a rash of bad luck with Netgear routers of late, not just mine....about four others as well.
I had one persons WGR614 (white model) that was bad right out of the box. That one doesn't bother me so much, as the others that were up and working (one for over a year).
I had another (white model) that refused to talk nice to a Airlink adapter until I used Airlink's utility to connect instead of Windows Zero Wireless Config utility. I know the Airlink101 line is crap, but we're talking a PCI adapter less than 20 feet away from the router....go figure.
I had another WGR614 (older silver model) go bad....and it was MINE (in use for about a year). I found the culprit, our babysitter and her mom share out network. She received a video ipod for her 16th birthday and had been downloading shows via Google and itunes!. Now this kind of activity shouldn't lock up a router, it was the cause...but not directly. She was downloading most of her stuff at night to not load the network, and the constant use was causing the router to overheat! Once overheated it just stopped working! You could check all the settings, but the internet connection just refused to work until you reset the power on the unit (even resetting via the browser utility didn't do it).
The other unit to fail was my old trusty MR814 (series 1, larger model). I kept this unit around for testing wireless devices and also for checking routers and hubs for others. I recently gave it up for a friend who was routerless with three computers who got DSL. Even with the latest Firmware and the absolutely correct settings on the device, no computer could connect to the internet, they could see each other, but could not go online. I thought it was a location thing, but when I brought it home, it was exactly the same way (even after reverting to factory settings and loading previous firmware versions).
Well, I had a $50 Circuit City Gift card sitting around...and with it I picked up a Linksys WRT54G It set up in minutes, is much better ventilated, larger case, two antennas, maintains a better connection with the Mrs's laptop (both have broadcom chipsets), and has QoS priority (so I can make sure we have priority over the babysitters video downloads for our work).
It was not quite as easy to change custom settings on as the NetGear, but it clearly has more features. I'm hoping it's more reliable than my netgear experiences of late as well.