WL-500g Premium

[florin_m]

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 ?

[Oleg]

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?

[florin_m]

give me a link where to upload them or a email box that support big attachement (PM ME )

[Oleg]

Just upload these stuff to rapidshare.
pmon/cfe image could be send to my mailbox.

[florin_m]

check your pm/mail box. send all to u. let me know if i can make it see the 32 meg ram

[Oleg]

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:

nvram set sdram_init=0x0009
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot

If this fails you will need to replace your router... I take no responsibility on this...

[florin_m]

PERFECT. It works :P now 32 meg ram

[britnet]

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?

[pippolippi]

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?

[Oleg]

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?

[grongl]

Oleg, I have complained to the ASUS customer support regarding the non-working Download Master. This is their reply:

(...) 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. (...)

It seems that new release is indeed around the corner as they have just released a new Traditional Chinese version yesterday:

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

Download link:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wir...gp_1968_TW.zip

[Oleg]

Nobody has a WL500gP CD?

[MarkoMarko]

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 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

[Oleg]

Don't know, as I've not seen sources yet.

[grongl]

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 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.