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Connect both USB storage drive AND printer to Nighthawk RAX42 (only 1 USB3 port)?
Just installed new Nighthawk RAX42 (AX4200 5-stream WiFi6) router, and successfully set up an external storage drive in the single USB 3.x port. Updated Windows 10 on most of the networked machines,...
I've heard of people using a usb hub to connect more than 1 drive. Can't say if I've read of people connecting hard drives and a printer.
A usb hub is pretty cheap and if it didn't work, you could always return it.
plemans wrote:
I've heard of people using a usb hub to connect more than 1 drive. Can't say if I've read of people connecting hard drives and a printer.
A usb hub is pretty cheap and if it didn't work, you could always return it.
Yup. If you have a USB drive with secondary USB ports, you could try putting a printer on one of these.
I have just confirmed that you can do this with an 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub. That has two USB ports on the front.
But the RAX42 falls at the first hurdle. It does not say that it supports printers attached to the USB. So no amount of messing around with hubs and add-on devices is likely to fix that.