One of the most underrated (and often overlooked) features of modern routers is the USB port, but it's not just a design quirk. That little slot can unlock a surprising range of possibilities.

Many routers have one or even two USB ports on the back. What good are they? Actually they have several practical purposes for your home network, such as enabling a shared printer. Here a few ...

and then connects it all to a USB sound card. Hardware side, done! And while he doesn’t cover the software side of things in this first video, we know where he’s headed. The WRT54G router was ...

A modem that plugs into the USB port of a computer. The term states only that the connection to the computer is via USB but does not imply which network service is supported. It often refers to a ...

It performed wonderfully in our extensive testing and provides not only four multi-gig wired networking ports per node, but also USB connectivity, which is rare in mesh routers. Blazing throughput ...

The only thing missing that most competitors have got is a USB port, but there aren’t many people sharing routers or storage devices via their router, so we’ll let that one pass. Dan is a ...

It also comes with a USB 3.0 port that supports mobile network tethering or storage sharing, offering flexibility for both internet redundancy and lightweight NAS setups. The router sports a ...