I only have the plan to switch to pfsense, so unfortunately I have no practical experience with pfsense and I didn't do lot of researches for the right hardware. So I'm not in the position to give recommondations for the right hardware for you, sorry...
In general: Yes, we all should kick that piece of sh!t out of our infrastructure, never buy a cisco product any more, and switch to pfsense for example which can be configured completely over a shell, receives a lot of updates and does not have NSA b...
> looses internet connectivity
If some websites still work like facebook or youtube, the internet connectivity has not been lost completely. Perhaps only DNS does not work any more? Because the old build-in DNS is quite crap, at least in the previou...
i was looking for this firmware too. there are a lot of postings of people who upgraded to 1.3.1.10 and one of their main problems seems to be that after upgrading only one easy vpn client can connect to the router any more. (or at least something li...