Ars Technica Numbers don't lie—it's time to build your own router Ars Technica Enlarge / Clockwise from the far left: 1. the Ubuntu-powered Homebrew Special, 2. the Netgear Nighthawk X6, 3. the Buffalo WHR-G300N-v2, and 4. the Linksys N600 EA-2750. Far right, looming over them all: Monolith, one of the two servers used for testing.