:DRUnless you have an opitcal drive/are not incompetent with technology avoid this router (unless you got it on sale like i did!)

I find this unit very quiet, small and easy to have on my hard drive.

For 3 days they tried to get remote access to attached usb hard drive to no success

But that is because I have a WIFI hard drive system for sharingfiles between the computers on my network

I wouldn't even bother trying to connect a hard drive via usb for extra storage.

The router refused to even notice I had connected a hard drive via usb--which is surprising because usb and hard drives are so old tech.

This does not have a USB port for those wanting to hook up an external hard drive to their router

a great user manual you can download, a USB port for adding a hard drive to, and a built-in antenna that means no separate rabbit ears.

At some point, I'd like to hook up a USB hard drive to the router, but I've read in some blogs that it's only compatible with certain hard drives.

Maybe an ethernet connection to a hard drive would work, but I'm wondering why I'd bother to try that experiment.

Since this hard drive system can hold up to 12 TB of

Downside - it will not make a hard drive a network hard drive or a printer a network printer.

Really should just have a cheap USB drive or something to install the app

I tried a couple of usb sticks which worked just fine, but that's only good for sharing files, not real online storage like a hard drive

The D-Link works fine, and I now have full network functionality as well as internet connectivity.