Router for home Network

[DG4]

Hi ...I wanted to use my Hub3 DOCSIS 3.0 Router on a home network. On researching the subject i have found that it is possible to use a router with a usb  port to facilitate this. However sadly my router does not have a usb port on it. My question is.......if i got an ethernet to usb adaptor would this work?. If so would there be any configuration settings to alter?

[Tudor]

Your description is a bit vague. What actually are you trying connect to the VM Hub? Is it a PC or a Hard Disk?

[g0akc · Accepted solution]

What exactly are you trying to do?  What are you trying to set up?

Is this for a share on your home network - USB drive in rear of hub/router so you can share files/media with different devices, or even externally?

Forget trying to do this with a Hub 3 (or any other VM hub).

Some ISP hubs/routers, including some of the BT Home Hubs, will allow this but not all.  Better to use a third party router that offers this capability.

Ethernet to USB?  Not really.  Such devices are normally used to connect a device/computer that lacks an Ethernet interface, but has USB functionality. It's not going to let you do what you want to do - You would still need a DLNA server, SAMBA (for Windows FS) and so on.  They need to run on a 'box' of some sort with processing power.

My D Link router allows all that plus FTP server, if required - sharing content on a USB drive plugged into the back of the router.

Better still get a NAS drive....

[DG4]

thanks for the input.....thought as much...NAS it is then cheers

[DG4]

thanks for the input ...now sorted .....gone for NAS setup