1 - Simply connect your hard drive to the USB port on the back of the routerStep 2 - Go to Finder -> {Your Name}

You should see an option for USB/Hard DriveStep 3 - Double click on the hard drive and you're all set

In fact about all you can access are specific DLink enabled products (cameras, some hard drives) and the router itself.

I can now use my macbook air without physically connecting a USB hard drive to it

In my personal research I narrowed the field down to 4 models: two expensive, feature-rich models (the above-mentioned linksys and asus), capable of hard-drive/printer sharing, gigabit switch ports, and three-stream dual-band operation for maximum bandwidth, and two inexpensive but reliable, stable, and easily configured models (this model, Dlink 605L, and the linksys-cisco e3200).

Good enough to run VLC/Movist/download files from uTorrent directly to connected hard drive

so either it stores data in a hidden file on the hard drive or somewhere on line

and it didn't help that the D-Link support site had no email or phone support

This was a replacement of an earlier version D-Link router which blew in a lightning storm.

Neither construction nor weather help the wi-fi, yet this D-Link functions quite well

Never got any response from D-Link Support Services despite 2 requests

Sorry D-Link, this router just can't keep up speed within its own specs.

Unfortnately, I cannot return the D-Link Cloud Router, since it has been used!!!!

This D-link Wireless Broadband Router works great

The range is not quite as good as the one I

I expended some time tied up in endles e-mails attempts to correct that password (they had my e-mail address and unit ID number on file correctly), but I could not reset my password without knowing the password!!

I sent as e-mail to support