BT HomeHub and External Hard Drive

Pete Gl

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I've read on a couple of forums that it's possible to plug an External HDD into the USB socket on the Hub and it should appear as a network drive available to all who can access the wireless network.

Have tried it with no joy, if anybody has done it successfully any advice would be very much appreciated.

Pete
 
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I think it depends on the type of hub, some hubs have a USB socket which if for connecting the PC to the hub, for the internet connection.
What model is it?

Paul
 
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Taztastic said:
I think it depends on the type of hub, some hubs have a USB socket which if for connecting the PC to the hub, for the internet connection.
What model is it?

Paul
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Sorry, it's a quite new (within 12 months old) BT HomeHub 2.

Pete
 
Don't apologise Pete, if I had read the title...it says homehub there:bonk:

The link I provided has some info for the hub

Paul
 
It was a valid question Paul, as there are earlier versions of the BT HomeHub, and thanks for that link, I'll work through that.

Pete
 
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I tried this once and it fried one of my 2.5" portables. If you are in need of network storage, i would recommend purchasing a dedicated NAS drive.
 
I've done this, it has to be fat 32, we tried it with a usb stick first
 
Thanks Michael, there was also some information in that link posted by Paul that alluded to that too.

Think I'll give this a swerve.

Thanks all for replying.

Pete.
 
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