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ssandheinrich
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2018

NAS on the Orbi

I purchased the RBR50 tri-band mesh router for our home from Costco. I noticed that there are USB ports on the back of the access points.  Can you connect a drive for a network attached storage?  I d...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 30, 2018

Not at this time. NG only seems to support USB printers connected to the USB port. 

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    ssandheinrich
    Aspirant
    Dec 30, 2018

    Any benefit to USB attached printer v.s. wireless connections to the printer?  Thanks for the info.

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      FURRYe38
      Guru - Experienced User
      Dec 30, 2018

      USB would not take up any wifi bandwidth. If your not doing alot of printing you could use USB. Wireless you could allow wifi devices to connect directly to the printer.