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Miklosman
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Apr 03, 2020

Install printer to use it thru RBR50 USB port

I follow Netgear Orbilogin.com guidelines but it did not work. Someone can help? I have an RBR50, 2 sattelites and and outdoor sattellite. I cannot find any support about this in the community or any...
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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 03, 2020
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Others with more expertise than I have will surely weigh in soon.  My impression is "Not going to happen."

  • When I read through the Orbi User Manual, there is NO reference to Readyshare in it.  None.
    http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBK50/Orbi_UM_EN.pdf 
    I take this as a clue.
  • When I "search" (in the upper left part of the forum web page) for "readyshare printer", I get a bunch of hits from people asking things like "why doesn't it work?" or "It was no problem on my Nighthawk router, why won't it work on the Orbi?"

When Orbi was announced back in 2016, my guess is the engineering team had grand ambitions of making their new Orbi equivalent to the existing Nighthawk line, including being able to connect USB hard drives and printers to the USB port.  Somewhere along the way, whatever effort was going on fizzled out and is now a dim memory.  So much so that the currently shipping Orbi RBR50 doesn't even have a USB port on it.  And, the new WiFi6 Orbi RBR850 also has no USB port.  The choices are ethernet or WiFi.  Not USB.