Hi, have a new Netgear Nighthawk R7800 router with which I am generally VERY pleased, but I have two questions. I have attached a generic USB "thumbdrive" to one of the two router USB ports and a powered Seagate Free Agent hard drive to the other USB port. The Free Agent holds tons of files that my wife and I want to be able to access from our individual computers, including Quicken data files. The thumbdrive is small, and is just there for the Quicken backup files, which I want on a separate media in case the Segate Free Agent should fail. I used the NetGear ReadyShare app, and I mapped both drives to reconnect automatically (Windows 10)
Two questions:
1) Everything is golden ….. then, after a while, the plain old thumbdrive "vanishes". Rather, it shows connected in Windows File Explorer, but none of the folders/files are accessible. If I reboot the router, they show up again, and are usable, but only for a while. By contrast, the Seagate drive goes weeks and weeks and (after some latency to power up when accessed) always works. Instead of a thumbdrive, do I need something that is smart enough to "wake on LAN" or something like that? (I have tried 2 different brand, different size thumb drives, with the same result)
2) Does anyone know if I can attach a powered USB 3.0 hub to one of the router USB ports and have ReadyShare be able to see all the connected devices? Reason, I would like to connect 3 devices to the 2 USB ports on the router: 1) printer, 2) the Free Agent powered hard drive, and 3) a second USB drive for the Quicken backup files
Any thoughts/suggestions are most appreciated
bruce
Two questions:
1) Everything is golden ….. then, after a while, the plain old thumbdrive "vanishes". Rather, it shows connected in Windows File Explorer, but none of the folders/files are accessible. If I reboot the router, they show up again, and are usable, but only for a while. By contrast, the Seagate drive goes weeks and weeks and (after some latency to power up when accessed) always works. Instead of a thumbdrive, do I need something that is smart enough to "wake on LAN" or something like that? (I have tried 2 different brand, different size thumb drives, with the same result)
2) Does anyone know if I can attach a powered USB 3.0 hub to one of the router USB ports and have ReadyShare be able to see all the connected devices? Reason, I would like to connect 3 devices to the 2 USB ports on the router: 1) printer, 2) the Free Agent powered hard drive, and 3) a second USB drive for the Quicken backup files
Any thoughts/suggestions are most appreciated
bruce