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 ...

At 40 feet, the RE655BE continued to lead at 376.7 Mbps, nearly double what the RP-AX58 (201.1 Mbps) and EAX17 (197.7 Mbps) ...

Uncovering some blocked-off ports on the base of the unit revealed a USB-C port, which was found ... and another with a completely separate home router. With access to the Android side and 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 ...

As with most Wi-Fi 7 routers, it’s expensive, but you get many features for the money, including a pair of 10GbE networking ports, high-speed USB connectivity, free parental control software ...

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 ...