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(45 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Great product... after firmare replacement,
February 24, 2009 Tirso Julio Ramírez Pérez - See all my reviews
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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 people found the following review helpful
Incredible, if you use third party firmware!,
June 24, 2010 B. M Sullivan (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: ASUS WL-520GU Wireless Router (Personal Computers)
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...Read more
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Just get the tomato or DD-WRT firmware and its great!,
March 23, 2010 Trevor Muhlestein "Foremore" (Provo, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS WL-520GU Wireless Router (Personal Computers)
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...Read more
