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 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 ...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
traffic from LAN to WAN
Tomek
I noticed that the above mentioned firmware releasse description on the site changed toOriginally 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?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...Originally Posted by xcyborg
How did you connect to the router?Originally Posted by xcyborg
Via Telnet I could not connect to it.
WL-500gP => 1.9.2.7-7g (2007-04-06)
Running: thttpd, php 5.1, vsftp, rrdtool
http://onlinefussballmanager.de/userbar/0/53647.png
Using the "hidden admin page" I issued some commands. The original ASUS firmware does not contain a telnet server.Originally Posted by britnet
Hah, asked the technical support about it. There's their answer:Originally Posted by grongl
Now I'm really tempted to risk of having to learn Traditional Chinese in order to keep using it.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.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
Last edited by VenoM; 02-06-2006 at 10:37.