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gbrancovici
15-03-2005, 19:47
While visiting CeBIT I've run into ASUS' booth and I've found this weird things (see picture):
1. Why is the CD labelled g/gx?
2. What is the WL-500g2R?
Hi
I think the G/GX just means the devices are so similar that they share some advertising/dokumentation material, no new device.
Btw, what has the gx what the g has not, other than more cpu power and 2.0 USB ?
But the other device is interresting, indeet.
Greets
rkhalloran
17-03-2005, 22:15
The GX has (a) 2 USB 2.0 ports vs. 1 USB 1.1 port on the -G version, big improvement if you're planning on using USB-attached hard drives and (b) has the "afterburner" wireless enhancement so potentially you can get 100+ Mb/s throughput if your client adapters support it
The GX has (a) 2 USB 2.0 ports vs. 1 USB 1.1 port on the -G version, big improvement if you're planning on using USB-attached hard drives and (b) has the "afterburner" wireless enhancement so potentially you can get 100+ Mb/s throughput if your client adapters support it
Yeah well, "potentially" is even a big word when we're talking about wireless performance....
Antiloop
18-03-2005, 00:06
The GX has (a) 2 USB 2.0 ports vs. 1 USB 1.1 port on the -G version, big improvement if you're planning on using USB-attached hard drives and (b) has the "afterburner" wireless enhancement so potentially you can get 100+ Mb/s throughput if your client adapters support it
to correct you in the differences the WL500g also has a LPT port, the WL500g Deluxe (WL500gx was it's codename only) has not.
The GX has (a) 2 USB 2.0 ports vs. 1 USB 1.1 port on the -G version, big improvement if you're planning on using USB-attached hard drives and (b) has the "afterburner" wireless enhancement so potentially you can get 100+ Mb/s throughput if your client adapters support it
Well, the USB2.0 ports are not as big as an improvement as i had expected. When i upload to the disk (eq writing) the speed is about 480 Kb/s, for downloading (eq reading) it's about 800 Kb/s. But the speeds are quite stable, thats a plus.
The disk does about 35mb/s on ide, and ca 20mb/s when connected directly to the pc via a usb2.0 case. (reading)
Are these slow speeds hardware related (eg, the proc/usb controller cannot go any faster), or are these problems software related?
Antiloop
31-03-2005, 13:45
While visiting CeBIT I've run into ASUS' booth and I've found this weird things (see picture):
1. Why is the CD labelled g/gx?
2. What is the WL-500g2R?
regarding Q2:
see this thread please:
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