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  • ikjadoon - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link

    Minor note:

    LOL....

    The same USB port that 1) promised to be functional on the Orbi RBK50 & RBK53 (no hard drive support has ever come; barely has printing support...on $400+ routers) and 2) was removed on the updated RBK40 and RBK30?

    That is the USB port Netgear dropped because of "low business interest"? ;)
  • jj234 - Friday, September 1, 2017 - link

    Netgear never promised to make the USB port functional. Hell, Eero has one and they don't use it either.

    Do you really want to hook up a hard drive to use some shitty low performance NAS software on your router? Get a NAS if you want one or use one of the cloud services.
  • damianrobertjones - Saturday, September 2, 2017 - link

    If it has it it SHOULD work. Netgear often release absolute crap.
  • teckel - Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - link

    Who's to say the port isn't used to power something? That's all I've ever used a USB port on my router for. For example, power a Chromecast. I would never plug a printer or hard drive into my router, that's what a NAS is for.
  • aeolist - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link

    No PoE support is kind of a killer for something like this.
  • peterfares - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - link

    I don't think it is. These aren't meant to replace things like a Ubiquiti AP, these are for much smaller companies.
  • mdgm - Friday, September 1, 2017 - link

    This is for small companies who don't want to run ethernet cabling around their office. If you don't have ethernet wiring then you can't use PoE. If you have gone to the expense of installing ethernet wiring surely you'd use Business Access Points?
  • teckel - Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - link

    You're going to need Ethernet routing to your access point, so why not also send it power. Most corporate switches have POE as an option.
  • djc208 - Friday, September 1, 2017 - link

    Considering the intended market (people who probably use the consumer version in their office because that's what they could get at Best Buy or from Amazon), not really. Most won't have any idea what POE is or why they would want it. Especially if you are using it to extend wifi to an area instead of running ethernet.
  • docbones - Friday, September 1, 2017 - link

    Wonder if this one even has Ethernet Back-haul support? https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Feature-Requ...
  • Jiheffe - Sunday, April 15, 2018 - link

    The Employee network does not allow access to printers and NAS devices on the LAN. Do youkno many employees that never print? I advise to carefully read the Netgear forum before buying.

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