That USB port on your router looks useful, but plugging in the wrong device can create security and performance problems across your whole network.

While your router might seem like a single-purpose device, you can use its USB port for a variety of cool things. Here are some use cases worth exploring.

I just spent the last 15min uninformatively googling for the answer to "Can I connect a powered USB hub to a wireless router to expand the number of available ports". I got a lot of conflicting ...

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Currently have an aging 3.5" 5400 rpm hard drive attached in a powered external enclosure, with backups and shared pics and music for the PCs in the house. I want to replace the drive before too long ...

Today at a press event in San Francisco, Netgear announced a new next-generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi router, the R6200, and a USB adapter for PCs and notebooks called the A6200. Today at a press event in ...

Sometimes hacks don’t have to be innovative to be satisfying. We thought that [daffy]’s instructions and video (embedded below the break) for turning an old WRT54G router into an Internet radio were ...