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Orbi USB port - possible solution?
Hello all, I've just read the posts about the USB port being no use whatsoever on the Orbi. Wish I'd known before I purchased, but very happy with the range on the Orbi, so all is not lost. I...
I don't think that would work at all. A USB-to-Ethernet adapter (at least the one I have) is designed to provide an Ethernet port to a computer that has a USB host port. Your USB hard drive is not a computer and it has a USB slave port, not a USB host port, so you cannot plug such an adapter into it.
You could buy a cheap Raspberry Pi and turn it into a simple file server, and use that as your "usb to Ethernet" convertor.
Something like this: https://www.howtogeek.com/139433/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-low-power-network-storage-device/