New router with USB

Murdin999

Murdin999

Murdin999

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Firstly I'm a virgin 50mb customer, but yea my question is, which router is best for me, basically my current router, a buffalo one which has reached the end of it's days and I'm hoping to upgrade to a router with dual band wireless, a USB port so i can hook a printer or HDD up to it so i can set up like a small network in my house.

Also can i plug in a usb hub to such a port and add say 1 printer and 3 external HDDs and have them all accessible by all computers in the house or wouldn't that work?
 
routers dont usually come with usb ports, and the ones that do for printers, dont really work that way, so u cant simply plug in a hard drive and access it anywhere.

your best of getting a normal router, then get a seperate usb print server for your printer.

for your remote storage, either create a server of some type if you have any old parts laying around, or get a nas, which will just plug into the network.

i would avoid a all in one router with printer server, they are quite rare now, and expensive, buying them seperatly will work out cheaper
 
I don't mind paying a fair bit, as long as it works, i was looking at the Linksys by Cisco WRT610N-UK (Link) as that says you can hook up a USB drive np as it has a built in media service, just mainly I'd love to see if putting a USB hub in would allow me to access multiple things
 
I have a linksys wrt610n.
Its gigabit is good
4 ports for gigabit networking
Wireless is strong and constant in my experience, two streams, and can be completely separate login details if you want, both can hide the ssid etc.
Its network attached storage can act as media centre if you wish, you can NAS, you can hard drive directly.
Its a nice router, my only issues were blocking of wdtv network shares by it, but this was resovled by giving the router network a different network name to my workgroup of home PCs. Now everythign shares very nicely indeed.


It is also compatible with dd-wrt, but i haven't used this firmware, sticking to the default linksys for now.
 
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