ASUS WL-500W Wireless Super Speed N Router

by Asus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 9.8 x 3.1 inches ; 2.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000IP0N0E
• Item model number: WL-500W
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,169 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

The ASUS WL-500W Super Speed N multifunctional wireless router adopted the latest 802.11n draft to deliver high-speed data transfer and unparalleled interoperability between n-draft devices. It also incorporated Download Master and USB Pug-n-Share features for convenient digital content downloads and sharing of printer, webcam and external hard drive functions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars works with dd-wrt, May 30, 2008

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Jonathan Grimm (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS WL-500W Wireless Super Speed N Router (Personal Computers)

got it all set up with dd-wrt. Took 2 flashes with the windows flash tool, then a final one through the GUI. works great.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for someone who isn't scared to use a different firmware, December 22, 2008

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digitalman "digitalman" (Midlothian, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS WL-500W Wireless Super Speed N Router (Personal Computers)

I have used several Asus routers. Out of the box these stink, but if you install the tomato firmware, this turns into a powerhouse router. Yes it does add some complexity, but it is well worth it. If you have any problems you are usually able to reflash it with the clear settings firmware and start over. This is one of the few routers that works with tomato and has 32mb of flash storage (for the firmware).

One hitch, the tomato firmware currently doesn't support USB. There are other firmware options if you must have usb suppot.

I didn't give it a 5 star, because it does require some time and patience to initially set up the tomato firmware.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has nice featueres on paper, but doesn't work well overall, October 20, 2008

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Matt "Custom" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ASUS WL-500W Wireless Super Speed N Router (Personal Computers)

Pros: 802.11n, usb storage link / print server
When this access point works, it works well, but it doesn't work a lot of the time. I have a lot of problems connecting 802.11g clients and connection via 802.11n isn't available right away after connection is initiated.