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 to achieve 20 dBm, you have to set wl0_txpwr to 80.