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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Great product... after firmare replacement Feb 25, 2009
By Tirso Julio Ramírez Pérez This router router can do a lot more if you replace the original firmware with DD-WRT, Tomato or OpenWRT:
VPN, OpenVPN, NAS, BitTorrent, radio output power control, Wireless Print server, etc. It is possible to use a USB hub to connect several devices including printers.
Possibilities are endless.
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Incredible, if you use third party firmware! Jun 24, 2010
By B. M Sullivan I want to preface this review with a warning, if you don't intend to use Tomato or DDWRT firmware on this device then DO NOT purchase it! That being said, I popped this out of the box and installed Tomato ND almost immediately. The general consensus on the stock firmware is that it is abysmal and not worth touching!
So far I have three of these running, one at home and two at the office. All of them have been running flawlessly for months. I think my longest runtime is 80 days, but only due to power outages! The office ones are also running WDS, with the main one running a modified Tomato ND version with OpenVPN, which also works flawlessly.
I was slightly concerned about ventilation on these boxes, as they are just plastic with two minor vents yet I haven't had any issues. One of the office WDS links is running in an unventilated computer cabinet and hasn't had so much as a hiccup. One thing to note on WDS though is that I was unable to get them to run unless I used WPA/AES, TKIP would not work at all. This isn't a big deal, but is counterintuitive during setup.
Whether you choose to run Tomato ND or DDWRT is entirely up to you, but I don't think you will be disappointed with either one! Initial setup can be daunting for the technically challenged, but there are walk through guides out there. Definitely worth every penny, especially if you can get one with a rebate!
UPDATE: Just wanted to update everyone. I thought my uptime record for one of these boxes was 80 days, but I just checked on one attached to a UPS and it came in at an incredible 230 days!!! To me that speaks volumes about these little boxes.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Just get the tomato or DD-WRT firmware and its great! Mar 23, 2010
By Trevor Muhlestein
"Foremore"
Just as so many people have said this before, make sure you grab the DD-WRT firmware or the tomato firmware with the teddy bear mod and you should be just fine. its an amazing product. I havn't had it go down once in the last month I have had it. It pairs nicely with my Linksys m100 cable modem for Comcast. I am pushing close to 20 Mbps constant. I was very concerned about how much power this USB port had on it and if I needed a powered USB splitter or not. Well I took the risk and I have a 4 port Belkin Mini Hub (F5U407) connected to it so I can connect my printer and my usb HDD to it and it works great! Tomato allows me to run a FTP and opendns all with my dyndns account always being updated without a computer which is very nice. I used duct tape and taped the hub to the top of the device and it looks good. I am getting a super fast connetion to the internet through my wireless although I havn't ran it through any tests its plenty fast for online gaming. Also I run a media center from my PC to laptop that connects via HDMI to my plasma and it works fantastic, not one hiccup during movies or music so far. The deivce doesn't seem to get hot at all. just a slight warm. all in all it looks good, works as it should, and just blows past my expectations. The only thing that would have been nice is 802.11n support but right now I am ok with it.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
ASUS WL-520gu with tomato 1.28 Jan 22, 2012
By Bernard J Ruddock I use the ASUS WL-520gu, loaded with Tomato 1.28 (ND), for my business.
Very stable device and the price is right. Free shipping by Amazon is a plus.
Flashing Tomato is a bit of a problem because it cannot be done with the installed ASUS firmware.
You must first downgrade an older version of the ASUS firmware, namely WL520gu_2.0.0.8_EN.tr. Get it from the ASUS web site.
Next rename the tomato.ND.trx firmware to WL520gu_2.0.0.9_EN.trx to fool any sanity checks in the downloader software.
Finally flash the re-named tomato firmware.
I do this using my MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.7.2) and Safari.
Please note that tomato 1.28 does NOT support the USB port in the router. I don't need it for my system.
Tomato works great on the WL-529gu.
---Bernie
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Very easy to setup, especially if you have setup a router before. Oct 31, 2009
By C. Elliott I do not believe this is a first time router. If you have never setup a router before I would probably go with a Linksys or Netgear. Or if you are confident you do not need support from Asus to set it up out of box, then I would get it.
It is VERY easy to setup with the browser setup, but Asus *support* is lackluster. Their website is slow or unresponsive at times or may not even come up (blank page). The customer service reps are very nice and professional, but I found a few to not know the products I call in for and feel they are reading off a script.
That being said, I love this router. I run dd-wrt on it as well and it rock solid. The default firmware seems good and probably works for the general public perfectly fine. DD-wrt allows me to run a print, web, and nas server off a usb hub connected to the usb port. Seems well designed / ventilated because it runs no where near burning hot like a Netgear router I have. The range works great and I see no problems in my two story townhome with any connectivity issues. Matter of fact I see 5 out of 5 bars while I'm one story above the router on the second floor on my laptop.
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Great product... after firmare replacement Feb 25, 2009
By Tirso Julio Ramírez Pérez
