Does Orbi RBK50 support USB Connected hard drives?

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Sundreamer wrote:
Mean ntfs may not work but fat 32 will

Can’t understand why they don’t support ntfs

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Because then they would have to license it from MS, FAT32 is an open standard that requires no licensing. MacOS can't write to an NTFS drive for the same reason without third party software.

well, you may be right but I had a linksys prior the orbi supporting ntfs and no problem to copy large files from a macbookpro on the network.

Fat 32 is outdated, no support for large files.... is exfat also under lisence ? anyway I may be wrong but my old router was perfectly working with ntfs and I am quite sure that it's not so difficult to offer this features to people in compare to the price of the orbi routers.....

this is my opinion but my linksys was 1 third the price of my orbi's

This sayed, I am really happy with the wifi of obi's that's working like a charm.

let's just add support for exfat or ntfs.... (both like fat 32 are Microsoft isn't it ???)

I have the same problem/question regarding USB file sharing.  It worked great on my WNDR4300 so when I upgraded to the Orbi I was completely shocked to find it did not support the same functionality.  However, I was told it was coming.

I just got off the phone with Orbi support (after an extremely long wait on hold) and was told that file sharing is still not suported. 

I hate to have to downgrade the Orbi, becasue it works well as a wifi router, but I purchased it expecting to have the same file sharing I had on the earlier device.  I don't know how to get Netgear management's attention, but unless the fix this I will never purchase Netgear again.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Does-Orbi-RBK50-support-USB-Connected-hard-drives/m-p/1591935/highlight/true#M33877

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Andyx wrote:

I have the same problem/question regarding USB file sharing.  It worked great on my WNDR4300 so when I upgraded to the Orbi I was completely shocked to find it did not support the same functionality.  However, I was told it was coming.

I just got off the phone with Orbi support (after an extremely long wait on hold) and was told that file sharing is still not suported. 

 

I hate to have to downgrade the Orbi, becasue it works well as a wifi router, but I purchased it expecting to have the same file sharing I had on the earlier device.  I don't know how to get Netgear management's attention, but unless the fix this I will never purchase Netgear again.

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Well, for the price you pay you get F...

unfair and absurd

Hey,

do you know the current status of this question? It seems that in August 18, Netgear was planning to add this possibility to connect a USB-HardDrive to Router or Sattelite. Today I cannot find recent news.

Thank you for your help.

Okipic

No information. You might contact NG support and ask about this. 

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Okipic wrote:

Hey,

do you know the current status of this question? It seems that in August 18, Netgear was planning to add this possibility to connect a USB-HardDrive to Router or Sattelite. Today I cannot find recent news.

Thank you for your help.

Okipic

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Let us know if you find out anything. 

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Okipic wrote:
Thank you for your answer. I will do.
Best regards.

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