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I bought one of this routers, and tryed to find some infos about it, but i coudn't find any info about it part of few in russian. If i understand right it should have 32 Mb ram, but in meminfo it shows only 16 :( It same problem like deluxe , where the pmon need updated?
I managed to backup the pmon and the firmware (1.9.6.2), so if anyone interested let me know. Maybe it runs on normal wl500g too ;) ?
I'm interested in pmon & firmware. Please send it to me or give me an URL.
According to FCC pics it should have 32 MB of RAM.
Have your tried measuring routing performance?
give me a link where to upload them or a email box that support big attachement (PM ME ;) )
Just upload these stuff to rapidshare.
pmon/cfe image could be send to my mailbox.
check your pm/mail box. send all to u. let me know if i can make it see the 32 meg ram ;)
ok, got it. the flash is 8 mb, that's nice. the cpu is seems to be running @ 264MHz...
According to CFE values you've 32 MB of RAM enabled in one 256 Mbit DDR chip, which seems to be incorrect, as according to pics it has two 128 Mbit DDR chips... Perhaps that's why you're getting 16MB only.
So, if you brave enough you could type these lines:
If this fails you will need to replace your router... I take no responsibility on this...Code:nvram set sdram_init=0x0009
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot
PERFECT. It works :P now 32 meg ram ;)
Hi,
what do you think about this device?
Is it ok?
Where did you buy it?
My thought is, should i buy an 260 € wl-700 or
an 85 € wl-500g Premium!??!
Can you give me an advice?
Hi, Oleg closed this thread referring to the current one.
This threads answers the question about the ram (good) but not about the USB performance.
Searching this forum I see that the 500g has pretty bad usb performance, is this the case also for the 500g premium? Did anybody benchmark the disk performance?
Guys, you should have received CD in the WL500gP box.
This CD should have a firmware sources too.
Could you please check firmware version and sources which are burned to it?
Oleg, I have complained to the ASUS customer support regarding the non-working Download Master. This is their reply:
It seems that new release is indeed around the corner as they have just released a new Traditional Chinese version yesterday:Quote:
(...) After our test, the problem exists, Please wait for some days, We will release the new firmware on the website. Sincerely apologize for the inconveniences caused. (...)
Download link:Quote:
WL-500gP Traditional Chinese Firmware Version , version 1.9.6.8
1.Fixed G-Protection mode issue
2.Fixed samba server with using user account and path
3.Fixed user account issue
4.Fixed user may get some error while add more than one torrent
Add and Update
5.Please use new utility to test Download Master (more up-to-date than version 1.1.0.7)
6.Update information about peer and some error message
7.Update ctorrent / dmathined / giftd / snarf
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wir...gp_1968_TW.zip
Nobody has a WL500gP CD? :confused:
Mr Oleg,
What are the chances of implementing new features of wl500g premium - download manager and uPNP server into a future release of your excellent :cool: custom firmware for ordinary wl500gx?
I think it would make many people happy not to have to leave a noisy pc running all night, and it would save a few kWh of electricity!!!
Now, I know this is sortof available through 3rd party applicaitons but for the less tech-savy among us it is beyond our knowledge getting them to work.
Marko
Don't know, as I've not seen sources yet.
Oleg, I checked my CD and there seems to be no firmware supplied on it. As said, my Premium has version 1.9.6.2 installed, Asus has just recently released 1.9.6.8 in tradiotional chinese (o_O), I'm eagerly awaiting the English release because loads of bugs on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
I have 500g premium and I can confirm that there is no firmware or sources on the supplied CD.
And the 1.9.6.2 is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen... it is full of bugs and it crashes when saving settings...
Thanks guys. ASUS is violating GPL as usual...
Yet another question - is there anyone, who has tried benchmarking this box? Does it handle 100 Mb/s when routing? Does USB performs fast?
I have no idea how to test routing speed, but I did test speed of hard drive connected to the USB. And it is about 3MB/s when uploading to the disk and about 2.5MB/s when downloading from the disk. Quite slow.
But there is another problem. I tried uploading some big files (700MB) from local computer to the USB hard drive, and it timeouts before starting transfer. The bigest files that can be transfered from windows PC to the router is 75MB. On the other hand 700MB file can be uploaded from Mac OS X... Is this Windows or router problem? I tried to do it on two windows machines and even through WiFi but big files are no go in any case from windows.
Oh and the supplied firmware is awful... there is an update on asus site, but only in traditional chinese... wich is useless.
Hi,
I tested the speed of the WL-500gP and I think it's pretty good. I transferred data with ~10 MB/s over the wire and with ~3.5 MB/s over wifi (the protocol used for testing was NFS).
I'm quite happy with my new aquisition and since I won't mess with the firmware for a couple of days, Oleg if you need something in particular from an "untouched" piece of hardware tell me. My firmware is 1.9.6.2 and the hardware version is "WL500gH-01-00-00-00".
As florin_m previously stated, only a part of the memory is "active", the output from "free" is:
I don't uderstand, why did ASUS bother to ship the router with 32MB if they are using only 16MB ?Code:total used free shared buffers
Mem: 14308 12880 1428 0 2500
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 14308 12880 1428
The CD indeed doesn't contain any firmware or sources, a complete listing follows:
Code:11563392 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 25 19:12 /media/cdrom
11563520 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 25 19:12 /media/cdrom/AREADER
11563648 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 25 19:12 /media/cdrom/AREADER/5.0
11563650 8614 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8820072 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/5.0/ar500enu.exe
11563776 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 25 19:12 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0
11563778 5 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4107 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/0x0409.ini
11563779 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1730 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/Abcpy.ini
11563781 2665 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2728960 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/Adobe\ Reader\ 7.0.msi
11563784 28635 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 29321655 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/Data1.cab
11563785 256 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 262144 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/Rdr70.itw
11563787 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1168 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/Setup.ini
11563789 1780 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1822520 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/instmsiw.exe
11563791 220 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 225280 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/AREADER/7.0/setup.exe
11563395 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 25 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/AUTORUN.INF
11563904 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 25 19:12 /media/cdrom/Doc
11563906 61169 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 62636663 Mar 25 19:09 /media/cdrom/Doc/A-500gPManuals.exe
11563908 43332 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 44371191 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Doc/A-WL500gP_router_quick.pdf
11563911 99414 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 101798924 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Doc/U-500gPManuals.exe
11563913 81403 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 83356117 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Doc/U-WL500gP_router_quick.pdf
11563916 23550 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 24114923 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Doc/WL500gP_router_manual.pdf
11563398 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1417 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.chs
11563400 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1649 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.cht
11563402 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2104 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.csy
11563404 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2229 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.deu
11563405 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2180 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.eng
11563407 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2189 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.esp
11563409 954 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 976896 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.exe
11563411 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2175 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.fra
11563412 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2042 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.ita
11563414 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1966 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.jpn
11563416 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1748 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.kor
11563418 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2075 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.nld
11563419 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2273 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.plk
11563421 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2075 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.ptg
11563423 3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2101 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.rus
11563425 2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1964 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Setup.trk
11564032 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 25 19:12 /media/cdrom/Utility
11564034 449 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 459544 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/ENGINE32.CAB
11564036 279 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 285054 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/Setup.bmp
11564037 1523 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1558545 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/data1.cab
11564039 38 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 38193 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/data1.hdr
11564041 5955 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6097807 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/data2.cab
11564043 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 492 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/layout.bin
11564044 115 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 116880 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/setup.exe
11564046 427 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 436623 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/setup.ibt
11564048 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 707 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/setup.ini
11564050 191 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 194835 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/setup.inx
11564051 239 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 243858 Mar 25 19:10 /media/cdrom/Utility/setup.skin
You mean WAN to LAN transfer, right?
Ah, now that you mentioned it, I think I tested with both source and destination being in the LAN. I'm not sure because I did a lot of changes in my setup and I don't remember exactly when I ran the tests. It is possible that I actually ended up testing the switch instead of the router ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
Tomorrow I'll setup my network in such a way to force the packets to be routed between LAN and WAN. Afterwards I'll post my results here.
In the meantime you can consider my previous statements as "switching tests" not "routing tests". Anyways, I'm pretty happy with the WL-500gP since the speed I got using the switch is almost the same as using a crossover cable.
Hi,
the routing performance is great:
[tomek@xenon ~]$ wget -O /dev/null http://192.168.1.5/gpl2.zip
--22:05:03-- http://192.168.1.5/gpl2.zip
=> `/dev/null'
Connecting to 192.168.1.5:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 558,054,874 [application/zip]
100%[================================================== ==============================>] 558,054,874 10.38M/s ETA 00:00
22:06:02 (9.01 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [558,054,874/558,054,874]
the test was with enabled firewall and Logged packets set to both :D
traffic from LAN to WAN
Tomek
I noticed that the above mentioned firmware releasse description on the site changed toQuote:
Originally Posted by TribesMan
Now it says 'English', too. But: release slot and date (22/5) is the same, filename is the same (ends with TW) and filedate is old (15/5). Anyone dare try it?Quote:
WL-500gP English/Traditional Chinese Firmware Version , version 1.9.6.8
This is fishy. My friend tried the 1.9.6.8 a while ago and he said that it is unstable. But he didn't say anything if it is english or chinese. I'ill ask him and i'll let you know.
Well, switching speed is the same for all models, as they use the same switch core...Quote:
Originally Posted by xcyborg
How did you connect to the router?Quote:
Originally Posted by xcyborg
Via Telnet I could not connect to it.
Using the "hidden admin page" I issued some commands. The original ASUS firmware does not contain a telnet server.Quote:
Originally Posted by britnet
Hah, asked the technical support about it. There's their answer:Quote:
Originally Posted by grongl
Now I'm really tempted to risk of having to learn Traditional Chinese in order to keep using it. :)Quote:
Dear Customer, The firmware is dual language, you can install it to your module. I believe it's no problem. And the date is not important. Please note the version number.
Firmware upgrade successful. Download Master still can't connect. Funny, in the firware relase notes they say 'Please use new utility to test Download Master (more up-to-date than version 1.1.0.7)', but the latest utility release 1.6.5.0 contains the very same version...
They have also removed the Radio Power box in the Wireless/Advanced settings page.
This sucks. I upgraded too and the signal is very weak, tx rate 5 Mbps. With the original firmware I had a pretty decent signal.Quote:
Originally Posted by grongl
After giving the command wl txpwr1 :
TxPower is 127 qdbm, 31.75 dbm, 1496 mW Override is Off
After the command wl txpwr 40
TxPower is 64 qdbm, 16.00 dbm, 40 mW Override is Off
After a restart
TxPower is 127 qdbm, 31.75 dbm, 1496 mW Override is Off
So, nothing changed. It's outperformed by my old Netgear WGR614 (same settings : WPA-PSK, same location) witch had tx 48 Mbps 24/7.
Code:total used free shared buffers
Mem: 30516 13140 17376 0 2460
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 30516 13140 17376
Is there any way to backup the original firmware on the Premium?
Since new version does not have Tx power control, I'm not sure if the Tx signal will be sufficient in my setup. Because I was barely able to recive in some "distant" corners of my house with old firmware on maximum 12mW setting, and if this one is worse...
Venom how do you set TxPower manualy?
Nice, so how we go there?Quote:
Originally Posted by xcyborg
Hello!
I would like to buy one of the two routers, the WL-500 Deluxe of WL-500 Premium.
I don't know which one to choose. The Deluxe seems to have more options regarding custom firmware. But the Premium is faster.
What it want from this router is to setup a http and ftp server available from the WAN and LAN. I would also like to connect an external hard drive and store music and other files and make them available from the LAN. Of course, internet acces is also required. The premium has the download function, which seems nice, but i can live without it.
I am not really familiar with all the procedures and requirements in order to achieve what i said i need above.
Price is about the same, but the Deluxe is quite harder to be found around here in shops/online stores.
Can anyone help me and explain why I would need one instead of the other?
Thank you very much!!
I haven't got the Premium yet, but the following method works on a WL300g:Quote:
Originally Posted by TribesMan
Use the hidden admin page at http://192.168.1.1/Main_AdmStatus_Content.asp to run this command:
dd if=/dev/mtd/1ro of=/var/tmp/display.jpg
Then just download the firmware from http://192.168.1.1/display.jpg
This works because there is a dangling symlink from /www/display.jpg to /var/tmp/display.jpg, maybe intended for the webcam application?
You might want to check this with ls before issuing the dd command...
Two additional notes:
- The http server can't be trusted. I had to make several attempts to get the complete image.
- The downloaded image will end with a lot of "ff" data, caused by the empty flash area at the end (before the nvram partition). This is not part of the image and should probably be deleted before reflashing
No guarantees whatsoever
Bjørn
Did anybody try this so far?
Oleg asus just uploaded the sources for the 1.9.6.8.
ftp://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wire...500gp_1968.zip
Beware 140MB download.
Read http://www.wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=31952&postcount=1 (post in Russian only)
I installed on my WL-500gP with out problem
Well, consider it's alpha quality... But it seems to be working. Just wait for -pre2, I would fix minor things.
Hi @ all,
I asked Oleg for something in english:
I think, so we should wait a little bitQuote:
Originally Posted by Oleg