And facts supporting that are?

How did this get down to an iPod thread?

Basically this is similar to many other units with N and USB but it differs in one aspect. CPU speed. The CPU of this "router" runs at 480MHz which is twice than virtually anything else on the market with very few exceptions. Anyone that have used a "router" for more than a router e.g. NAS, PBX, SVN and many other useful things has noticed the shortcoming of the slow BCM470x CPUs. The slowness is especially evident in any encryption based task such as SSH, SFTP, Bittorrent (when ran only over encrypted peers). The slowness is also evident in any network file transfer or USB (local) file transfer. For example I run Debian Lenny on ASUS WL500gP which works great but file transfers over SMB peak at 3.7MB/s only, SFTP peaks at 1.2MB/s. For these reasons WNR3500L will be a bless. This CPU will solve most of those problems and while we will probably not see Gb speeds for file transfers they should reach at least ~100Mb sustained speed. It will also help all encryption tasks.

That was my point. Apart from the splash damage it can cause to networks, it can make a few more users unconcerned with business requirements to look for an alternative to their insecure, flawed software.

Maybe it's not the most moral thing to think, but I love Malware. And this one is just great. I love Conficker. I Love it because awakens some about the flaws of the software they use. Go Downadup, Go!