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Hiya,
So I want to connect an external HD to my wireless system in the house. Unfortunately, the rental Arris modem I have, while it does have a USB connection, comes with this disabled, so I am hooped on that front.
But hark, I have my old D Link router just sitting here, a 655 model, and something tells me I can connect the router to the modem and the external HD to the router and, voila! (?)
My question is:
-by connecting the HD to a router, will I now have to access the HD through that router? That seems useless to me because I have a modem I want to connect to and stay connected to. The whole reason I went with this rental was to avoid upgrading routers, and to use LESS BS parts and pieces in my setup. Ideally I just hit the HD from my machine and use it, but the stupids at Arris don't see fit to allow this.
I am confident that with a little more google-fu I can get this system set up and going, but my question above is the show stopper (for me right now, maybe it's a non-issue)
The reason for the external HD: I use GoPro a lot and it's a memory hog, so I thought of just dropping everything into the external and using it when required. Then we could also store photos, and music, etc. in one location sans wires that you usually connect to your puter when using an external HD. We have portable external HDs for travel already, I just wanted some big honking fucker for the office and for all to use.
Help?
So I want to connect an external HD to my wireless system in the house. Unfortunately, the rental Arris modem I have, while it does have a USB connection, comes with this disabled, so I am hooped on that front.
But hark, I have my old D Link router just sitting here, a 655 model, and something tells me I can connect the router to the modem and the external HD to the router and, voila! (?)
My question is:
-by connecting the HD to a router, will I now have to access the HD through that router? That seems useless to me because I have a modem I want to connect to and stay connected to. The whole reason I went with this rental was to avoid upgrading routers, and to use LESS BS parts and pieces in my setup. Ideally I just hit the HD from my machine and use it, but the stupids at Arris don't see fit to allow this.
I am confident that with a little more google-fu I can get this system set up and going, but my question above is the show stopper (for me right now, maybe it's a non-issue)
The reason for the external HD: I use GoPro a lot and it's a memory hog, so I thought of just dropping everything into the external and using it when required. Then we could also store photos, and music, etc. in one location sans wires that you usually connect to your puter when using an external HD. We have portable external HDs for travel already, I just wanted some big honking fucker for the office and for all to use.
Help?