I need a good gaming and streaming router?

Me and a friend of mine are rooming in a house together in about a month and we need a good streaming and gaming router. We plan to get Time Warner Cable internet at a speed of about 30 MBPS and we need a good router that can support streaming and gaming. It also needs to be able to handle multiple devices. The devices that I can know for sure that will be connected are: 2 laptops, 2 Xbox's, 2 iPhone's, and an iPad. We plan to have friends over so we may have a few more devices on the connection. Our price range is probably $100-$130. The streaming aspect will mainly be used for Youtube. Also we want one that has decent security settings but we don't need one that is over the top.

Your best bet would be a dual band router, there are ones expecially meant for gaming consoles. There are also ways to splice the Wi-Fi into two halves so you each get your "own Wi-Fi"

Not a real lot of difference performance wise between those routers.dd-wrt support is nice if you need feature the base router does not provide.

I suspect you will still have a bottleneck at the ISP since you will never get the rated speed especially during peak hours.

For streaming inside the house you want to keep as much of this wired as you possibly can. Wireless is half duplex only one device can use it at a time and they tend to stomp all over each other so you want as few sharing as possible.

It may also benefit you to run 2 different routers, one for g and the other for N. Although routers will now attempt to switch back and forth with a mix of different clients they do no do it very well. Beside 2 routers gives you 2 different wireless groups which mean you can now have 2 machines transmitting at the same instant.