Asus WL 500 resurrection
Posted by Adi | Filed under English
In the last year I was using an Asus WL 500 wifi router and a couple of days ago it just stop working. The LAN and WAN leds were flashing and the power led and wifi were off. From time to time it started to work, but dying after a couple of hours.
I tried upgrading the firmware but with no luck.
After searching the Internet I found a forum thread on the Asus support page and it looks like I am not alone. The forum suggest the problem is from the adapter. After measuring the power adapter output, I did not find anything wrong and the deviation from the 5V, 2A was small. I was a bit disappointed and I forget about the router for a couple of days.
I finally decided to open the power adapter and take a look inside and I found that the capacitor from the exit bridge (the small one) was damaged. After replacing it, the router start working again.
If your Asus WL 500 router is blinking in a strange way you should first try a new power adapter or see if you will need to fix it.
Murdoch has been to the Vet by eleda 1
May 13th, 2010 at 16:49
I had the same thing happen to me not too long ago (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2010/03/fixing-dead-asus-wl-500g.html). It seems these power adapters contain some kind of internal clock to tell them when to go haywire :-p.
Anyway, I was much lazier and bought a new “universal” adapter: http://www.vitacom.ro/Products/29765/P_SUP_SMP5V2A5/5V-2_5A-SWITCH-ADAPTER-.html (although I’m planning on getting the original adapter fixed).
May 19th, 2010 at 15:39
78 RON! Expensive mister … expensive!
They just have bad capacitor as it happens with many other power adapters.
Replacing that capacitor should not cost more that 10RON in the most luxury electronic repair shop