WL-500gx is *definitely* USB 2.0 - note that USB 2.0 does *not* mean that the interface has to run at 480MBit/sec. USB 2.0 is a protocol definition which has a *maximum* speed of 480MBit/sec. USB 2.0 devices are not required to run that fast, and the WL-500gx definitely does not run that fast. But it does run faster than the non-deluxe version.Originally Posted by Duchy
Note that the USB disk speed on the WL-500gx is not that impressive. It is about half the speed of the NSLU2, and any device under USD$200 is going to have a much lower performance than your desktop computer when accessing a USB drive.
I personally have a WL-500gx, because I consider it the best router (and because it runs the Optware packages that my open source project develops), but I use an NSLU2 for disk serving.
-- Rod (www.nslu2-linux.org)