Can I connect a USB optical drive to the USB port of the RT-68 router and watch a movie disk?

[CaseyCMC]

Can I connect a USB optical drive to the USB port of the RT-68 router and watch a movie disk in that drive on any wirelessly-connected laptop? Would be very handy now that the laptops don't have internal drives and not everything is available via streaming.

 

[psoohoo]

In theory it should work, but it will probably be identified as a network share and not an optical drive. This may cause issues with DVD Players (software) as it may not properly decrypt the copy protection that is on the disc. Honestly i have never shared a optical drive to definitively say this will work or not.

If the disc is not copy-protected then its probably OK.

 

[jsmithepa]

A big fat NO.

A router talks to a HD, an optical, believe or not, is a different animal.