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ASUS WL-500G Deluxe Wireless Router Review

Category: Other

by Alex Burn & Dr. Awk

[ 06/14/2005 | 01:47 PM ]

We would like to offer you a review of the wireless router from ASUS. Highly functional device with rich set of accessories and extensive setup options and support of advanced modern wireless protocols with their speed-boost extensions is worth every penny you pay for it. Read more in our detailed review!

Table of contents:

• Introduction
  
• Exterior and Accessories
  
• Software
  
• Menu Options: Wireless
  
• Menu Options: IP Config
  
• Menu Options: NAT Setting
  
• Menu Options: Internet Firewall
  
• Menu Options: USB Application
  
• Menu Options: System Setup
  
• Menu Options: Status & Log
  
• Performance
  
• Conclusion
  

Introduction

Following the general trend towards total wirelessness, many major manufacturers of PC peripherals have recently entered new fields of activity and began to produce wireless access devices. Among them we see the leading makers of mainboards like ASUSTeK, Gigabyte and MSI. They don’t limit themselves with integrating wireless controllers directly into the mainboard or adding a special-purpose add-on card as an accessory.

Far from that, they come up with full-fledged devices like the wireless (802.11g) router ASUS WL-500G Deluxe we are going to review in this article. Strictly speaking, the WL-500G router from ASUS has been on the market for quite long, but the recently released Deluxe version features a slightly revised stuffing with several useful functions added, and thus stirs up our interest.

So here it is: