ASUS WL-500g Premium – Wireless router + 4-port switch – Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, 802.11b, 802.11g – external

5 Review to this product

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  Zulfiqar Ali Naushad
  October 12th, 2010 on 6:24 am

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  It’s quite simple actually.

  The minute you get this router, just install Tomato firmware or DD-WRT and start using.

  Don’t even bother with the stock ASUS firmware.

  This device is beautiful with those firmwares since it has more RAM than the linksys WRT54GL.
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  James I. Park
  October 12th, 2010 on 9:59 am

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  This is a good router, and you can use 3rd party firmwares on it. However, big problem for me is that this version does not support VLAN. you have to buy V1 for that.
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  Butch
  October 17th, 2010 on 11:00 pm

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  This router exceeded my expectations. Easy to flash with Tomato. Mounted in the center of the home, excellent WDS signal to my Buffalo and Linksys running Tomato.
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  RTPMason
  October 18th, 2010 on 1:25 pm

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  I bought this to replace an aging Linksys router for several reasons.

  1) It has a detachable antenna, allowing me to put an external antenna on for more range and an easier placement of the antenna. Now I can keep the electronics / wires hidden and in one place without sacrificing the signal quality. I’m currently using a D-Link ANT24-0700 2.4 GHz Omni-Directional 7 dBi Indoor Antenna, sold here, and love it.

  2) It has USB connections for a quick and easy shared hard disk / printer. Very nice!

  3) It has more internal memory and a faster processor so everything runs must better and faster.

  4) It was compatible with some third party router software, DD-WRT ([...]), that can be loaded onto the router and take advantage of the fast processor and memory to make it run like a “REAL” professional router.

  With the factory configuration it ran great out of the box. Both wired and wireless. If folks are having trouble with the wireless aspect, it my be due to their own software / drivers for the wireless cards they are using. I’ve got laptops from Dell, IBM, HP, Acer (not mine!), and Gateway all running fine. Sometimes the drivers need upgraded to work on newer routers. This is especially true with WPA and WPA2 security running on the router.

  When you add in the third party software, you get everything you could possibly want. A decent firewall, remote logging of every connection (Allowed and failed) into and out of the router, ability to increase the RF output power from under 100mw to 250mw for much greater wireless range, and every possible configuration to help you manage your local network. You can even put a “hosts” file on the router to block out access to unwanted sites from all the computers in your network!

  I bought this router in July of 2007 and am happy to report that after dozens of reconfigurations, etc. It’s still working perfectly and is the best consumer grade router I’ve ever used.
  
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  A. Sako
  October 19th, 2010 on 1:10 am

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  Eazy to setup, blazingly fast, clunky UI.

  Also, be carefull when setting up a USB printer as several of the features of multifunction printers such as scanning will not be supported

  Bought to replace linksys. Can’t say enough positive about this router