Asus WL-520gU

ASUS WL-520gU Home Gateway Wireless Router

ASUS has been establishing themselves as a top tier brand in the past few years, building on their already solid reputation for quality motherboards and graphics cards with an increasingly large line of computer peripherals and even complete systems. Today we’ll be looking at the WL-520gU, a low-cost home gateway router offering 802.11g wireless, 10/100baseT Ethernet, and a fair number of promises about performance. With the home networking market already dominated by Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link, ASUS is going to have a rough time establishing a foothold. Take a look with us, and see if the 520gU is up to the challenge. ASUS went for a fairly restrained design on the packaging here, with a tasteful blue-and-gray color scheme. The major features are prominently listed, along with a photo of the router itself. On the back, they go into more detail about the main features, with colorful diagrams to illustrate the key concepts. As informative packaging goes, this is actually fairly good. Getting the packing materials out of the way, we see what ASUS has included with this router. Aside from the router itself, we have the WiFi antenna, AC adaptor, setup disc and a patch cable.