talking bout speed ... you have wl500g or wl500gX (deluxe) ? Cause the bottle neck is NOT your LAN or WLAN, it's the USB port. People with wl500g (which has USB 1.1 only) reported speeds below 1MByte/sec. With my wl500g deluxe and a 512MB USB stick (USB 2.0) I reached 1,3MByte/sec using samba. FTP was much slower, around 800-900kByte/sec. Still I hope that with a real hard disk connected I will get a lil more speed out of it.