I've got 2 devices hardwired, 3 wireless devices, a hard drive USB and a vpn running at all times, definitely holding up to everything I'm throwing at it

It has a TON of great features including being able to plug in external hard drives and printers into the usb ports for increased usablity across the netwok.

I have a USB hard drive hooked up to this and the router is sharing it on the network as a NAS.

Bought this router thinking that we would be able to use the external hard drive capability for wireless connectivity.

and it's great that I can access my hard drive on other devices wirelessly.

one thing it can not do is run a hard drive through the usb it can use a usb stick but a actual hard drive would need its own power source I believe.

Also aidisk and smb conmections with a hard drive are slow and dont work as well as a computer when streaming

First the Doc Pdf (instructions) refused to copy to my hard drive

Love the usb inputs, I store all my music on a large hard drive and listen to it anywhere in the house

I have lots of things wired int it, including all my gaming consoles, multiple computers, a USB hard drive, and a few other random things, and it handles all the traffic without issue ( I am using a gigabyte switch to plug in all devices)

Not only have I attached and used my USB 3.0 HDD (the very same that was attached to the Linksys E3200 and couldn't be managed while attached to the router through the browser interface after the last firmware update) to the RT-N66U as an external drive to share files and work as a Networked Windows backup drive, but

I was able to connect two of my apple computers to the hard drive, but my newer MacBook Air would not see the external hard drive.

There is a known issue if you try to connect more than one usb hard drive

Checked...and best of all, as simple as plugging in a USB hard drive or flash to the USB ports on the

Bought this to provide 5Ghz and wider coverage in my home after a trusty D-Link had passed on

good i like it

There are a lot of options for tweeking the system, however, I would be very careful in tweeking until I well knew the benefits of the tweek