There are also some cool little features like setting up a guest network and the ability to connect an external hard drive via USB to share information wirelessly through your network

Both units have a USB connector for attachment of a hard drive, which can then be accessed by any device connected to the router

The hard drive I have plugged into the thing doesn't always work after sitting idle for a while, so sometimes I have to restart the router to get the drive to serve up

I plugged the hard drive containing my movies into the C9 v1's USB 3 port and was able to access my movies via WiFi.

Just notice it has the capability to connect to a hard drive...

USB hard drive very on both ports 3.0/2/0 very hard to connect and be shared and recognized and allow access from network...

With the out of the box firmware I was able to get DLNA going but discovered that I was unable to write to the hard drive.

I like that I can connect a USB hard drive as a network drive (with a

I hooked up a hard drive for a shared media drive

I like the USBs on it to attach a portable drive for my network

Stable router with Buggy firmware see Archer C9(UN)_V1_160517.If you reserve DHCP address for your network hard drive or printer or

Setting up an external hard drive on the USB 3.0 port for cloud storage is also easier with this router than the D-Link

I connected an external hard drive to the USB port and mapped as a drive on a windows computer

I like that I can connect a USB hard drive as a network drive (with a

The media sharing feature was very simple to set up, now I can stream movies from my hard drive to any device on my network

Add to that if you connect a USB Hard drive to the router you'll have a very hard time interfacing with it

The Netgear was worse because it would occasionally introduce errors on the hard drive, requiring removal and running ChkDsk to fix the errors

I did try the cloud drive function by adding a hard drive... thought it would be easier access but have to use FTP.

Cant wait to hook a hard drive up to the usb.

One star taken off for the funky form factor, and for the hard drive not starting from idle sometimes.

I don’t usually leave reviews unless I am totally wow’d by a product and this one definitely exceeded my expectations

my cheap D-Link still works fine after 5 years (but only 2.4Ghz).

I’m using my slower 7 year old D link router in the meantime that lasted me for years.

I’m coming from a fully functional D-Link router which never failed in doing