Finally got hold of this Router/NAS 18 months later after release on a fire sale price...
I plan to replace both good old trusty TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND (OpenWRT+Gargoyle) and D-LINK DNS-323 (Alt-F+ffp) at the same time.
The default firmware from NETGEAR is minimal in features but satisfactory for the moment: has wild-card domain filtering, monthly bandwidth cap controls, wi-fi scheduling, which are hard to find (all) on modern routers. On the NAS side, the NTFS support is a huge plus (although I've giving up Apple Time Machine support on NTFS) and the gigabit reading speed is wickedly fast at 70-90 MBytes/S.
I will be missing these features from OpenWRT:
- OpenVPN.
- Detailed web usage and web search monitoring.
I will be missing these features from Alt-F:
- BitTorrent client.
- Newsbin client.
A few more additional features specific to the CENTRIA:
- Provide hard drive inactivity spin-down timer.
- Temperature driven fan speed control.
Now then... getting started with the NETGEAR provided source code for their firmware and heading off to the newbie section for OpenWRT development...