so I could hook up an external hard drive too

I have a 1.5 gig hard drive connected to

Nice to see USB 3.0 in this model too, which should work great for a USB 3.0 portable drive

Netgear tech support advised me that the drive was not compatible with the router and referred me to a "compatibility" list url.

Bought this router in hope to have NAS and connect my external hard drive to it

I have two hard drives connected to it to share

I also have a 3 TB USB 3.0 hard drive attached for my video and music collections and to back up all my computers over the network plus a printer on the USB 2.0 port as a network printer

so I can plug my external hard drive & printer into my network

It has the capability to allow you plug a hard drive into the router via a usb plug and then access the hard drive via the internet.

We bought this router to replace our broken D-Link router and it was extremely easy to install.

pics AMAZON has of this router above at time I write this is a 4 tab/strip USB 2.0 like mine2:Internal scans using software reads as listed in unit's OWN data that the WiFi 2.4 and 5Ghz chips and some code are from the 4500... but a higher V number than sold (strange, I know)