Asus Routers

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WL-500g Premium front
WL-500g Premium front
WL-500g Premium rear
WL-500g Premium rear

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (Asus) makes a series of powerful network routers directly competing with routers from Linksys and Buffalo.

Asus series of routers generally ship with Broadcom chipsets, faster processors, more memory, removable antennas and USB ports for expansion. Although their factory default firmware is feature rich it’s still not considered very stable and powerful enough compared to its hardware. Open source Linux based router firmware projects such as Sveasoft,[1] DD-WRT,[2] OpenWRT,[3] FreeWRT[4] and Tomato Firmware[5] are able to get much better performance out of Asus routers.

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[edit] Asus Routers

Model Hardware rev FCC ID Platform & Frequency [MHz] RAM [MB] Flash Memory [MB] Wireless NIC WLAN standard [802.11] mini PCI Serial port JTAG port Ethernet port count Voltage Input [V/A] Special Features/notes Sveasoft firmware version Min required DD-WRT version Notes for Running DD-WRT Min required Tomato Firmware version Notes for Tomato Firmware
WL-300G[6] - MSQWL300G Broadcom4710@125 16 4 Broadcom b/g 1 -  ? 1 LAN 5 - v23 SP2 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-500B[7] - MSQWL500B Broadcom4710@125 16 4 Broadcom b (maybe wlan must be replaced to work) 1 - 1 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 1 USB, 1 LPT v23 SP2 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-500G[8] - MSQWL500G Broadcom4710@125 16 4 Broadcom b/g 1 - 1 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 1 USB, 1 LPT Alchemy, Talisman v23 SP2 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-500G Deluxe[9] - MSQWL500GD Broadcom5365@200 32 4 Broadcom b/g  ? 1  ? 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 2 USB 2.0; internal pins:,[10] 3 × GPIO, 2 × serial port[11] (voltage conversion needed[12]), reset Alchemy, Talisman v23 SP2[13] initial flash via Asus tool, tftp, or web interface
WL-500G Premium[14] - MSQWL500GP Broadcom4712&4704@264 32 8 Broadcom b/g 1 1  ? 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 2 USB Alchemy, Talisman v23 SP3 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-500G Premium[15] v2 MSQWL500GPV2 Broadcom5354@240 32 8 Broadcom b/g 1 1  ? 4 LAN/1 WAN? 5 2 USB Talisman v24 rc7 - build 9264 initial flash via Asus tool Tomato_1_19_ND Tomato_1_19_ND works for Broadcom5354 chipset
WL-500W[16] - MSQWL500W Broadcom4704@264 32 8 Broadcom b/g/n 1  ? 1 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 2 USB Talisman v24 RC3 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-520G - MSQWL520G Broadcom5350@200 8 2 Broadcom b/g  ?  ?  ? 4 LAN/1 WAN 5  ? v24 micro build 8733 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-520GC[17] - MSQWL520GUGC Broadcom5354@240 16 2 Broadcom b/g  ? -  ? 4 LAN/1 WAN 5  ? v24 micro build 8257 initial flash via Asus tool
WL-520GU - MSQWL520GUGC Broadcom5354@240 16 4 Broadcom b/g  ?  ?  ? 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 1 USB v24 build 8257? initial flash via Asus tool
WL-550gE[18] - MSQWL550GE Broadcom5352@200 16 4 Broadcom b/g  ? - - 4 LAN/1 WAN 5 2 USB 1.1 (Requires soldering header) Talisman v23 SP2 initial flash via Asus tool
Model Hardware rev FCC ID Platform & Frequency [MHz] RAM [MB] Flash Memory [MB] Wireless NIC WLAN standard [802.11] mini PCI Serial port JTAG port Ethernet port count Voltage Input [V/A] Special Features/notes Sveasoft firmware version Min required DD-WRT version Notes for Running DD-WRT Min required Tomato Firmware version Notes for Tomato Firmware

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sveasoft
  2. ^ DD-WRT Wiki - Supported Devices
  3. ^ Asus Wl 500 premium Open WRT Howto: WiFi router for the Huawei E220
  4. ^ freewrt.org - The device (in short: WL500gP) is fully supported by FreeWRT
  5. ^ Tomato Firmware - Asus WL500G Premium (no USB support)
  6. ^ WL-300G
  7. ^ WL-500B
  8. ^ WL-500G
  9. ^ WL-500G Deluxe
  10. ^ 2 extra USB ports
  11. ^ serial port
  12. ^ voltage conversion
  13. ^ v23 SP2
  14. ^ WL-500G Premium
  15. ^ WL-500G Premium
  16. ^ WL-500W
  17. ^ WL-520GC
  18. ^ WL-550gE
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