If you are one of the Asus WL500G Premium owners than it is possible to have problems with an USB drive connected the the unit: the HDD won’t respond after a few MB written on disk and the unit restores it’s factory settings.
Maybe you don’t have problems like the one above but I am having problems with an Western Digital 500GB Essential Edition connected to the router so I decided to upgrade it’s firmware to a DD-WRT version (v24 std final). It’s a small Linux distribution that can be installed on many routers.
It brings a lot of new features:
- Advanced banwidth management
- DDNS support
- Ad network support
- Hotspot support
- MAC Address Clone
- Advanced DHCP options
- Advanced Wireless configuration (mode, frequency, encryption, mac filter, etc)
- XBOX and PSP connection
- System log, traffic log, network map
- SSH connection
- A lot of filters for MAC, hostname, IP, etc.
- Overclocking (!)
- New web UI
- Wake On Lan
- etc.
See the difference between the classic Asus firmware and DDWRT:
This guide is for Asus but a similar process can be applied to any router from the Supported Hardware List. Step 1 and 2 are different but the others are the same.
Very important: Before you read any further and/or try a firmware upgrade note that I am not responsible for any hardware/software/human (hope not) damages/injuries. Try to be sure that you have a backup supply for the router and PC because a power shortage in the middle of the upgrade process makes your router useless!
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