Hacking the ASUS WL-500g Premium
I've used to prefer an assembled pc with old hardware in place of typical hardware routers and gateways. After years with a debian pc used as router/fileserver/etc i've wanted a silent little machine to do the same things. the ASUS WL-500 was the response, after a week or so i've changed the firmware with x-wrt that is OpenWRT with a much better GUI and some patches.
Surfing the net
No problem at all, i've wireless and wired clients. I use WPA for the wireless connection in the advanced setting i've found that Since OpenWRT RC6 you have to set _wl0_txpwr_ in qdBm (1/4 dBm), so if you want so achieve 20 dBm, you have to set wl0_txpwr to 80.