Buying new router and crossing fingers

So the other day we had a few power outages and everything seemed fine, but I could not log on to xbox live. Then I could log on, but then it would disconnect. Thus ensued a few days of resetting everything, upgrading firmware for the umpteenth time, yada, yada, yada. Same thing. So I finally broke down and begrudgeingly called M$ support (while my free hand was gouging my eye out). It actually wasn't too bad, but they could not shed any light on the situation after running through all their suggestions - I had already done them all. Anyway, so I was back to where I started - I don't think it's the xbox, or at least I really hope it is not as I would have to box up my 3rd one and take it back to Costco for the latest and greatest.

So, the other part of this is that I have had issues with my home network and my work laptop. I connect fine, I can log onto the VPN fine, but then I can't access anything in Outlook when connected, so I end up just using webmail.  When I get outside the house and connect to another network, everything is fine again.

Anyway, I've had a love/hate relationship with this router for over 4 years and it's time to give something else a try. Because of the cisco vpn issues, I might go with a linksys just to hopefully solve both issues. Keeping my fingers crossed....