[WL-500g Deluxe] European WL500g Deluxe first pics

[WlanMan]

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]

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

[Styno]

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]

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.

[Bartjuh]

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?