ASUS WL-500W Wireless Super Speed N Router

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 9.8 x 3.1 inches ; 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B000IP0N0E
• Item model number: WL-500W
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 21, 2006

Product Description

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

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Jonathan Grimm (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 1 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

By	MattNis "Scalure" (USA) - See all my reviews

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.

3 of 4 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

By	digitalman "digitalman" (Midlothian, VA) - See all my reviews

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.