Dear Lazyweb: What's a good prosumer soho wifi / router / access point?

So i’m sick of flaky wifi / routers / access points. I’ve had netgear’s, d-link’s, belkin’s, and linksys routers. To me they all were about the same, which is to say they worked some of the time.

Before i go back to getting one more of the same to replace my now limping netgear, i’ve thought, what if i got something more than the cheapest consumer class wifi router. I know that hotels, conference centers, and all sorts of other places have wifi which doesn’t need to be restarted on a regular basis, that doesn’t suck. Sure some have wifi which sucks, but some don’t. The same goes with companies, at Yahoo! there was good wifi coverage all over campus, their crazy vpn made it hard to use, but the coverage was there.

So then my question becomes, what are my options one level up? So far a little searching around i found the Cisco Aironet’s which start around $200 for the lower end models and the ZyXAL’s ZyWALL 2WG router which supports 3G as a backup connection in addition to being a wifi router at $250+.

Are those good routers? What are the alternatives in that quality range? Has anybody tried and used either of those?

Dear lazyweb, please help….