Wireless Router

[Anthony Gabrielson]

Hello All,

    Quick question, I would like to purchase a new wireless router with a
USB port so my wife and I can more easily backup our files.  So far Linksys
seems to be the only game in town, is anyone familiar with another
manufacturer?  I'm kind of surprised USB isn't more ubiquitous on the high
end home routers.

 

Thanks,

Anthony


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[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

USB isn't typically a networking interface, so I assume that's why
:-). Routers are layer3 devices.  USB is layer1.  It sounds like you
want a NAS device...



On 6/22/08, Anthony Gabrielson <agabriel@...> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>     Quick question, I would like to purchase a new wireless router with a
> USB port so my wife and I can more easily backup our files.  So far Linksys
> seems to be the only game in town, is anyone familiar with another
> manufacturer?  I'm kind of surprised USB isn't more ubiquitous on the high
> end home routers.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
>
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[Anthony Gabrielson]

I found three devices that had the capability I was looking for, Linksys
{wrt350n, wrt600n} and an Apple airport. I ended up purchasing the Linksys
WRT350n for $109 on newegg - that's a really good price for that router, and
I current have and like my Linksys wrt300n.  What I wanted/needed was a
router with a USB port so I could plug my external USB HD directly into it
and my wife and I could back our files up with little effort.  We only have
laptops and I don't have the space for lots of equipment, so I want to
accomplish what I need with the smallest set of hardware possible.  So, with
that said, yes I did want a NAS device - I just wanted the router to handle
it...

Anthony

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From: Kristian Erik Hermansen [mailto:kristian.hermansen@...]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:30 AM
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Subject: Re: Wireless Router

USB isn't typically a networking interface, so I assume that's why
:-). Routers are layer3 devices.  USB is layer1.  It sounds like you
want a NAS device...



On 6/22/08, Anthony Gabrielson <agabriel@...> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>     Quick question, I would like to purchase a new wireless router with a
> USB port so my wife and I can more easily backup our files.  So far
Linksys

> seems to be the only game in town, is anyone familiar with another
> manufacturer?  I'm kind of surprised USB isn't more ubiquitous on the high
> end home routers.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
>
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[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 09:44:23AM -0400, Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
> I found three devices that had the capability I was looking for, Linksys
> {wrt350n, wrt600n} and an Apple airport.

Any time you're looking for wireless hardware, models and specs, just hit
the OpenWRT wiki:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware

It's not always up to date, but it's pretty close.  Asus makes a few
reasonably priced wireless routers with USB.

-ben

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[jherm]

>
> So, with that said, yes I did want a NAS device - I just wanted the router
> to handle it...
>

DD-WRT can also support external USB storage (only on some models), and can
run smbd or nfsd to share your files out to (generally) all up-to-date
operating systems.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/USB

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