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Good router for a lot of P2P-connections?

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Zirro:
My story in all it's glorious shortness goes like this: My old router was a Linksys of some sort. It worked great and appeared to handle plenty of connections that I pushed through it with my P2P-activities, but one day it broke down. It was old, so this wasn't a surprise. In a rush to get my Internet back up, and with the belief that all routers were created equal I bought the most expensive D-link model that was for sale at a nearby store. Big mistake, it appears, as my connection gets really, really slow as soon as I connect to more than twenty peers.

I've had it for a few months now and it'll probably be here until it breaks down as well. My family does not like that I spend so much money on computer-related items as it is. I'll be moving to my own apartment later on though, and therefore I am basically looking for recommendations on routers that can handle as many connections as possible.

Thanks!

EDIT: Note that what I am looking for here is not a router that can handle higher speeds than normal, but a much larger amount of connections with other peers.

halfelite:
What you want to look for is a router with a large NAT table. They very in sized from the crap ones in the fios router which will buckle under loading a steam game to some nice large 1mb or more.

this site used to have some good information

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_chart/Itemid,189/

Pentium100:
Or get a router that is Linux based and allows access to the command line.

The problem is not the amount of actual connections, since even 2000 would be enough, but the fact that by default, some Linux routers keep the entries in the table for 5 days. As a lot of P2P connections just fail and are not terminated properly, they quickly accumulate in the table and fill it. Reducing the timeout to 1 hour or so allows you to use P2P without problems.

This is based on my experience in using a PC with Linux as a router. A box with Linux in it should act the same.

Xiong Chiamiov:
DD-WRT allows you to adjust the number of available connections; Tomato and similar should as well.

Zirro:
Thanks guys. The site halfelite mentioned is of great help.

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