Firmware v1.8.1.7

[Antiloop]

USE THIS FIRMWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Firmware for the WL-500g can be found here:
ftp://www.asus.it/pub/ASUS/wireless/..._WL500g_EN.zip
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireles..._WL500g_EN.zip
http://www.asuscom.de/pub/ASUS/wirel..._WL500g_EN.zip
ftp://www.asus.com//pub/ASUS/wireles..._WL500g_EN.zip
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/wire..._WL500g_EN.zip
http://www.asus.com.cn/pub/ASUS/wire..._WL500g_EN.zip

Changelog:

1. Add: BigPond Service
2. Add: Connect/Disconnect for PPPoE/PPTP/Static/BigPond Connection Type, For WAN die issue, allow pressing "Connect" manaully to reset WAN phy
3. Add: Save/Clear Log
4. Add: Password checking option for Web Cam
5. Add: Init script option when USB Disk is inserted
6. Chg: For PPPoE in heavy uploading, when idle time out is set to 0, disable LCP ECHO Request,
7. Fix: Specified destination ip of UPnP port forwarding
8. Add: StartCraft Patch
9. Add: Limited Client mode
- Only one device behind that etherent bridge is allowed.
10. Change:
- Separate functions for SPI Firewall and Filter. And disabling Firewall, port for HTTP/LPR/PING will be opened.
11. Add: Afterburner(WL500gx only)
12. Add: WPA-PSK/WEP at the same time
13. Add: TKIP/AES at the same time(WL500g/WL500gx only)
14. Add: WPA-PSK for WDS
15. Add: AP-Isolated, prevent wireless client communicating with each other
16. Add: NTP with NTP server name
17. Add: Save UPnP forwarding entries into flash.
18. Add: UPnP advertisement for IGD
19. Add: Log entries for USB storage and Web Cam
20. Add: Another http port(7776) for Web camera viewing without password checking
21. UI relayout for Wireless and Firewall

important!!

Reset your WL500g to defaults via the restore button at the back after upgrading to this firmware!

Mirror@Chupa.nl:
http://files.wl500g.info/asus/wl500g..._WL500g_en.zip

[WlanMan]

Great !!

AP-Isolation is what i am waiting for.
Now the Hotspots kann Rock .
Still waiting on my WL so ...

Hmm, seems Asus Guys are adding much stuf from the custom Firmware...

[rwhitby]

The source code is also available at http://www.asuscom.de/pub/ASUS/wirel...3/GPL_1817.zip

[rwhitby]

Note that this firmware will not work correctly with Telstra Bigpond. I truly wonder where these router manufacturers get their information from about the Bigpond heartbeat, because it is at least six months out of date (and hence will not work).

I confirmed this by two means:

1/ Running the firmware - complete failure to connect.
2/ Examining the source code - they are still referencing the "<state>-remote.bigpond.net.au" heartbeat server addresses, which haven't worked since sometime around the start of this year.

I will work with Oleg to get a customized version of this firmware which has working Heartbeat support.

-- Rod

[orange]

it seems that after upgrade with the v1.8.1.7, the port range in the virtual server cannot be assigned. Only a single port is able to be assigned.
Whenever I set the range as 6881:6999, it only enter the port with 6999.
Also, when I use Bit torrent, the wan connection drop out after about a few minutes. Please help.

[Styno]

it seems that after upgrade with the v1.8.1.7, the port range in the virtual server cannot be assigned. Only a single port is able to be assigned.
Whenever I set the range as 6881:6999, it only enter the port with 6999.
Also, when I use Bit torrent, the wan connection drop out after about a few minutes. Please help.

Well if an older firmware does the trick for you, why upgrading? Perhaps this problem will be addressed in the future. In the mean time go back to 1.7.5.9 CR3, or try to find and fix the problem yourself.

[orange]

Well if an older firmware does the trick for you, why upgrading? Perhaps this problem will be addressed in the future. In the mean time go back to 1.7.5.9 CR3, or try to find and fix the problem yourself.

actually, the old firmware can't help solving the problem.
I have search the old post that the wan connection dying always exist while
using bit torrent.
I wonder if someone can help to setup code to solve this problem (maybe a list of reboot code can help) but i don't how to set and where to set.
Please give suggestion.

[Baz]

Like already mentioned in one of the BETA firmware threads, the "wireless firewall" menu in the webinterface is missing. When I looked at the html code of the menu, the "wireless firewall" menu was commented out

The following direct URLs seem to work, but I do not know if the wireless firewall will function properly (because I do not have a wifi card to test with yet )

http://yourWL500gIp/Advanced_DMZIP_Content.asp
http://yourWL500gIp/Advanced_DMZDHCP_Content.asp
http://yourWL500gIp/Advanced_DMZDWFilter_Content.asp
http://yourWL500gIp/Advanced_DMZDLFilter_Content.asp

Probably the lan and wifi interfaces are combined in this new firmware...
I already emailed asus support.
I'll keep you posted!

[Antiloop]

actually, the old firmware can't help solving the problem.
I have search the old post that the wan connection dying always exist while
using bit torrent.
I wonder if someone can help to setup code to solve this problem (maybe a list of reboot code can help) but i don't how to set and where to set.
Please give suggestion.

refer to this thread: https://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=571

I ask everyone to NOT discuss anything related to dead WAN ports inhere!

also read very clearly this line from the changelog:

2. Add: Connect/Disconnect for PPPoE/PPTP/Static/BigPond Connection Type, For WAN die issue, allow pressing "Connect" manaully to reset WAN phy

and to tell you, I am certainly NOT HAPPY with this solution from Asus
to say this is NOT a solution but a bad workaround

[shopping]

i expect RVSP or QoS, someone share the internet always use the bittorrent kill the bandwidth 24 hours.

[andre@home]

As some options within the wg01070506_WL500g firmware did not do what I expected, (or I did it the wrong way, maybe for another part of the forum....) I upgraded to 1.8.1.7 and afterwards did the reset as advised.
Although I could configure the wl500g through a hard conne connection on 192.168.1.1 and rebooted several time, the RF did not come up in the air...
The air-led did not burn continously but started and then after some second restarted as the HF-hardware kept on restarting but never really was turned on.
So the tools could not detect a signal of course..
At the end I downgraded to wg01070506 and I am thinking about what might be the cause. The settings have been added by hand after the flashing as uploading the old settings seemed not possible (as has been advised).
Suggestions welcome.

edit: for the rest the combi wl500g/100g and the wg01070506 firmware is quite stable. It worked out of the box and tests with mns voice/file ok, for some small options I upted it from the v1.6 firmware.
My wl500g is a 43I (or 1?)G-series with mac 000E......

[johnbronsgeest]

can anyone tell me how to setup my 500G so that anyone
can see my webcam

thx

John

[kfaessen]

As some options within the wg01070506_WL500g firmware did not do what I expected, (or I did it the wrong way, maybe for another part of the forum....) I upgraded to 1.8.1.7 and afterwards did the reset as advised.
Although I could configure the wl500g through a hard conne connection on 192.168.1.1 and rebooted several time, the RF did not come up in the air...
The air-led did not burn continously but started and then after some second restarted as the HF-hardware kept on restarting but never really was turned on.
So the tools could not detect a signal of course..
At the end I downgraded to wg01070506 and I am thinking about what might be the cause. The settings have been added by hand after the flashing as uploading the old settings seemed not possible (as has been advised).
Suggestions welcome.

edit: for the rest the combi wl500g/100g and the wg01070506 firmware is quite stable. It worked out of the box and tests with mns voice/file ok, for some small options I upted it from the v1.6 firmware.
My wl500g is a 43I (or 1?)G-series with mac 000E......

I have the same problem, no WLAN anymore, it now just fuctions like a normal router with cables... That's not the reason why I bought this router :P So let's get back to 1.7.5.9-4 that one rules...

[jbrbv]

12. Add: WPA-PSK/WEP at the same time
13. Add: TKIP/AES at the same time(WL500g/WL500gx only)
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Of all possible combinations i could only get working:
WPA-PSK/AES only
WPA-PSK/TKIP only
WEP/WEP-128bits only
WPA-PSK/TKIP + WEP/WEP-128bits together at the same time.

Has anyone else tried this?

So TKIP/AES and
AES/WEP-128 as well as
TKIP/AES/WEP-128 does NOT work at the same time in my environment.
Regards.

[Pandabeer]

This printer is not working anymore after upgrading to the firmware V1.8.1.7..

I used the printer setup utility, made an IP port 192.168.1.1, RAW 9101

Anybody experience the same problem?