How to use USB on Cisco wireless router

[Robert Crandal]

We have a Cisco DPC3825 wireless router. The manual for
this router can be found here:

http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/support/userguides2/4021196_B.pdf

This router has one USB port, but I'm not sure how to use it to transfer
files between different devices (or similar devices). For example, if I
have photos on a Polaroid tablet, how do I transfer them onto a USB
flash drive installed on the router? I then want to copy those files
from the wireless USB onto my Windows 8 laptop. (Or vice versa)

I'm already aware that I can use Google Drive or Dropbox or other
cloud services to transfer files, but I want to figure out how to use a
USB drive attached to a wireless router. I hope this doesnt involve
installing software apps on each device or setting up homegroups,
but if so, that's fine. Id' appreciate any advice. thank u!

[pi...@pong.ball]

>We have a Cisco DPC3825 wireless router.
>

>This router has one USB port, but I'm not sure how to use it to transfer
>files between different devices (or similar devices).

I think it's just an alternate network connection, AKA serial client connection
for people who don't have Ethernet or WiFi on their computer. It's possible that
there's support for USB storage devices, sort of a cheap NAS using a jump drive;
try plugging a memory stick in and see if anything shows up.

[VanguardLH]

Robert Crandal wrote:

> We have a Cisco DPC3825 wireless router. The manual for
> this router can be found here:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/support/userguides2/4021196_B.pdf

That manual on page 16 shows a USB connection but a specific example of
chaining together a primary router (model starts with "D") with a slave
router (model starts with "E") rather than you having to consume a RJ-45
Ethernet LAN port for that.

"printer" isn't mentioned anywhere within that document so it is
unlikely that it provides support as a networked printer server.

Since they show a blue-colored USB port then it's probably a USB3 port
(so it wouldn't be slower using USB2). Yet:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/video/cable-modems-digital-voice-emta-edva/7018331_D.pdf

only mentions USB2. That document also calls it a USB2 *host* port.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/3800/hardware/installation/guide/hw/mithril.html

It says that port can be used with USB flash memory modules. I'm sure
they're just promoting their own product and that any USB flash drive
could be used. Yet:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/3800/hardware/installation/guide/hw/38over.html#wp1008498

indicates the USB ports are there for future capability enhancement. So
call Cisco to ask if those ports are usable. They may not have any
firmware that yet has code to make use of the USB ports (also indicated
by a lack of description along with lack of mention in config screens of
how to configure the USB ports). Could be they're just providing a USB
interface to which later firmware might use.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/video/residential-gateway-model-dpc3825-epc3825/model.html

Since the product's release date was back in 2010 but they still don't
have an online manual that describes using the USB ports, it looks like
a planned feature that was never utilized.

http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=%7b20e2b6f0-8b8e-11df-6baf-000000000000%7d

says "USB - Connects to *selected* client devices."

Looks like the USB ports were a proposed feature that never happened so
its USB ports are not yet enabled (in firmware). You'll have to use
something else to network your flash drive.

[The Real Bev]

We've been trying to set up our Linksys E4200v2 router so we can plug a
USB drive into it and access it via the internet, which is theoretically
possible IF you have windows or a mac to set up the browser that allows
this (very different from the version povided for linux) AND you
apparently have to set up a linksys account as a middleman between the
internet and the router+USB drive. That seems incredibly stupid on
several levels (I can access anything on the computer already, why not a
separate USB drive?), such that I MUST be wrong, but there it is...

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Cheers, Bev
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