You may have seen my other thread on new home construction network info. For my firewall/router I decided to go the home built route and use pfSense as the OS. Below are the build specs, its up and running and working well so far. The basic pfSense setup out of the box was more or less simple, I watched Mark Furneaux's excellent video series...
A1SRi-2758f firewall/router build report
A1SRi-2758f firewall/router build report