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zposter said:
Can the USB port on it be used as a print server when configured as a bridge (if not natively, via DD-WRT or Tomato)?
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The USB port can be used as either a print server or file server with DD-WRT or Tomato, but not with the native firmware.
 
Just saw it at 59.99 again and was going to post it but I was a little slow this morning..

On a side note, following the instructions at dd-wrt for the latest build I cannot get the dd-wrt.v24-16785_NEWD-2_K2.6_big-e2k-e3k.bin to load..
It states successful but it always comes back to the usb-nas build.. Don't really need the Big build but thougt it odd that I can't get it loaded..
 
got one, figured it was time to update my Wrt54g running tomato.

What Firmware are you guys running?

Tomato usb or DD-WRT?
 
On Newegg 31% of the people gave it 3 eggs or less...that's like one in three people.....that's a pretty high rate of unhappy people. What do you guys think??
 
donfm said:
On Newegg 31% of the people gave it 3 eggs or less...that's like one in three people.....that's a pretty high rate of unhappy people. What do you guys think??
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I hear that the default firmware is pretty bad and you need to goto DDWRT or Tomato to get full use of this. That could be causing that spate of bad reviews.
 
donfm said:
On Newegg 31% of the people gave it 3 eggs or less...that's like one in three people.....that's a pretty high rate of unhappy people. What do you guys think??
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tread lightly when reading those reviews. sometimes people can't RTFM, and aren't as "savvy" as they think they are.

edit: also, what Ryland said 🙂
 
ch33zw1z said:
tread lightly when reading those reviews. sometimes people can't RTFM, and aren't as "savvy" as they think they are.
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Agreed. Wireless routers with advanced features are ubiquitous these days, but the average tech level of end users is significantly lower than it should be. Most users would be better off buying something on the cheap with basic functionality, but even feature-packed routers are relatively cheap these days (see this thread, Exhibit A), and everyone likes shiny objects with blinkenlights. As a result, this router, and many other Linksys/Cisco, Netgear, etc. routers with advanced features end up with tons of crappy reviews on major online retailers (especially Newegg and Amazon) left by lazy and/or incompetent users that are annoyed that they can't figure out how to properly use their new toy. In short, PEBKAC.

/rant
 
I find that newegg tends to have fairly accurate ratings. I tend to avoid the things that have 4 stars overall, but have > 15-20% 3 star or less reviews. I have been fairly lucky with that mentality. A lot of the time it pays to quit being a cheap piece of crap and spend the extra 10-20$ to get something that is less prone to failure.
 
So, no one has used the media server portion? And no one knows if I flash to tomato or DD-wrt will I keep the media server portion of the router?
 
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