Open Hardware Upgrade of Asus DIY Platform

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ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taiwan)
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Dear Product Designers of Asus Corporation!

this is a request for a simple product upgrade of one of your products, which is extremely popular in the DIY gadget scene to serve as a homeserver, all in one appliance, router, webcam, network attached storage, torrent downloader, radio station, mp3 player and much more.

with the decision of Asus to use GPL software in the firmware, Asus opened the platform for a large number of developers, enthusiasts and hobbyists making it a successor of the popular Linksys NSLU2.

nevertheless the last technical upgrade (asus 500gp V2) only implemented a few cost effective optimizations while the features were not upgraded. we dont want to upgrade to the atom platform, which comes at a much higher pricepoint with much more power consumption. we need a simple upgrade of features for this machine which is basically a fine and economical base system for embedded software projects.

here is a list of features which are definetly needed:

- 128 MB RAM instead of 32MB with socket to upgrade ram so-dimm.
- draft N wifi (not just a/b/g, please keep the mini-pci)
- 4 USB slots (better than 2 USB slots)
- gigabit switch (not just fast ethernet switch)

make this available for 150 dollars street price!
probably in black instead of white.

please consider to release parts of the hardware and documentation under a free license.

48 Signatures

Elio Clemente
- most wanted feature
- detailed features for max. 150 dollars street price!
- would you buy more than one?
- No
John M. Keenan
- most wanted feature
- audio support internally
- would you buy more than one?
- No
theMIROn
- most wanted feature
- memory
- would you buy more than one?
- No
VLastimil Landsman
- most wanted feature
- 128MB RAM
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Kuzhelev Leonid
- Comments
- Thank You
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Corn Crake
- Comments
- В
- most wanted feature
- 128 ram
- would you buy more than one?
- No
dINIs
- most wanted feature
- All mentioned above, plus modern CPU
- would you buy more than one?
- No
freexander
Pit Schultz
- Comments
- yes, quick please.
- most wanted feature
- more Ram, Draft N.
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Paulo Ramos
- most wanted feature
- more computing power and 4 usb
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Iulian Constantinescu
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Jan Sefcik
- most wanted feature
- 128 MB memory, 1 Gbps ethernet, fast USB
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Marek Piechaczek
- most wanted feature
- 128MB Ram, Gigabit-switch, WiFi-N
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Vasile Tompa
- Comments
- also, a faster CPU would be great.
- most wanted feature
- keep GPL
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Michaі Frckiewicz
Popkov V.U.
- most wanted feature
- 128 MB of RAM
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Tomas Цfverstedt
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Asermut Hatermu
- most wanted feature
- more ram
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Pawel
- most wanted feature
- Faster processor, more RAM
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Hugo Gomes
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Damian Lesiuk
- Comments
- i have 2 asus routers,
- most wanted feature
- more ram, faster cpu (not atom), gigabit lan
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Marian
- Comments
- this is what the market needs
- most wanted feature
- all of them!!
- would you buy more than one?
- No
poiu
- Comments
- Thank you
- most wanted feature
- ram/rom/cpu/minipci draftn
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Erwin Felisarta
- most wanted feature
- 4 usb ports and support for 3g usb modems
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Ad van Berk
- Comments
- totally agree
- most wanted feature
- more ram memory
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Irshaad
- Comments
- Owner of three Broadcom router
- most wanted feature
- Dual WAN (multihomed)
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Dmitry Karmanov
- Comments
- 500gp v2 is not so hot when operating, so i like it, but need more ram !
- most wanted feature
- 128 RAM (or more)
- would you buy more than one?
- No
istvanb
- most wanted feature
- The box on black color
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Sperl Viktike
- Comments
- Greate WL series anyway
- most wanted feature
- Fast CPU, Lots of RAM, Gigabit ethernet, N wifi, Real 2.0 USB speed
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Jakub
- Comments
- wanna black edition
- most wanted feature
- dual band
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Jones Bush
- most wanted feature
- all to be honest
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Ondrej Pecta
- most wanted feature
- Faster CPU
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Lukas Liptak
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Lukas Lavicka
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Arek Patyk
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Mars X.
- most wanted feature
- USB, linux
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Eric
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Pablo Escobar
Maciej
- most wanted feature
- RAM
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Zhernakov Andrew
- most wanted feature
- dual-N band
- would you buy more than one?
- No
stewart bennell
- would you buy more than one?
- No
mike russl
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Lauri Vхsandi
- Comments
- More USB ports and more RAM is even better ;)
- most wanted feature
- Please keep holes for pins you won't connect! WL500GP had 2 USB ports connected but the chip actually had 4 ports - make it easier for DIY guys to connect those ports
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Martin Misek
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Dave T
- Comments
- Yes yes and yes
- most wanted feature
- Dual Band N
- would you buy more than one?
- No
Alan Li
- most wanted feature
- USB 3.0 and SATA III (if possible)
- would you buy more than one?
- No
yuwu xiong
- would you buy more than one?
- No
qilin
- Comments
- thank you
- most wanted feature
- not sure
- would you buy more than one?
- No