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"While some newer routers come with a USB port allowing users to add a hard drive or printer on the network, they are costly and rather limited in their functio

by ojbyrne 16y ago

"While some newer routers come with a USB port allowing users to add a hard drive or printer on the network, they are costly and rather limited in their functionality." My router cost $92 and supports 2 usb attached devices that it will share via SMB. And I run DD-WRT which deals with the limited functionality issue. Not that this thing doesn't look cool or useful, but that one sentence seemed inaccurate.

PStamatiou 16y ago
I think it is fair to say that this statement still stands true for all other non DD-WRT capable routers. I have used some horribly crappy routers that touted their USB expansion as a huge feature. edit: pre-caffeine typo fix
- ars 16y ago
  BTW, it's touted.
- ojbyrne 16y ago
  I was making 2 separate claims - a. cheapo routers can use external drives to do NAS and b. there's lots of functionality available for cheapo routers via DD-WRT.
whalesalad 16y ago
Which one is that, btw? I've been sticking to my guns of WRT54GL's forever with DD-WRT, but now that N is more mainstream I'd like something new, that also has usb ports for some NAS goodness.
- ojbyrne 16y ago
  I have a http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16 http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16, which I bought mostly because it has a whole lot of RAM (and flash RAM). Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried hooking up an external drive, I just don't have any reason to believe it won't work.