There's quite a lot of talk about router security, and patches not being applied frequently enough by manafacturers such as Netgear..
So I am thinking of moving to the open source DD WRT Kong Mod firmware, partly for this reason, and partly to enable me to try a few t.hings that the stock firmware won't let me do easily (such as make an arp setting stick across reboots).
I have another stock router (from TalkTalk, not good, having firmware about 2 years old with no sign of an update) which I can use to rescue me if the change to my R6250 goes wrong, so the risk isn't too high for me. I also have a copy of the stock Netgear firmware.
My question is whether the open source firmware obtained here is more likely to be kept reasonably up to date with security fixes, and is worth doing for that reason alone.
Any views?