How to Connect a USB Mass Storage Device to a BT Home Hub 3 © 2012 MSSpenceProductions. Thanks for Watching! Please feel free to rate, comment, & subscribe. Re: Connecting external USB drive to Home Hub 5 If I remember correctly there is a limit of 32GB for FAT32 with a max file size of 4GB. I have always found that the USB on the Homehub has at best been 'flacky'. Re: connect external hdd to home hub Yes, just map a network drive to 192.168.1.254usb1. If you are using W10 you will need to enable SMB1 as it deprecated and disabled by default. Go to Control panel. Easy backup with integrated USB 3.0 hub to manage and charge your devices. The Seagate® Backup Plus Hub drive optimises external storage with simple local or cloud file backup for your computers and mobile devices - and an intelligent USB hub to charge and manage your USB.
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The good part is that TP-Link have a good power source and a power button, in case that you have connected external hard drives when you turn off the computer the hard drives are still spinning, so it’s better to also turn off the power on the USB hub, which makes it much easier than to unplug the power on the HUB every time.
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I’ve recently set up XBMC on my Raspberry Pi (Openelec flavour) and its working really well. The problem is every time i want to watch a film i hvae on my PC I am stuck with a dilemma.
I either have to turn on whichever PC has the video stored on it to stream it or put the video on a flash drive and use that in the Pi.
I do have a 500gb portable Seagate drive that the fat man got me for Christmas but I need to invest in a powered hub to get it to work with the Pi. I’m also too poor to afford a NAS.
So I was a bit stuck. until I did some dusting… Polaris viewer for pc windows 8.
I’ve come over all Ken Dodd…
Seriously, I was dusting my front room when I noticed that my BT Home Hub had a USB port on the back of it. “wonder what that’s for” I pondered. Looking it up I found a thread on BT’s customer help site and it stated:
You can’t use this port to connect to the internet. The BT Home Hub 2.0, Hub 3, Hub 4 and Hub 5 only offer internet connection via Ethernet cable or via wireless.
However, the Hub 3, Hub 4 and Hub 5 support the use of the USB socket for the connection of USB storage devices.
Wait, so I can plug a USB hard drive into my router? Wouldn’t that make it a Network Attached Storage drive?
Holy crap that’s my problems solved!
Bt Home Hub 5 Usb External Hard Drive Enclosure
So I currently have the 500gb hard drive plugged into my BT Home Hub 4. to access it from the PC is easy.plug your hard drive into your Homehub. you can check if your drive is showing up by going to the homehub setting by either typing http://bthomehub.home or the IP of your router. Under USB mine says USB:Expansion (Rev: 0636).
In WINDOWS explorer click on the address bar and type and the IP of your router (usually its 192.168.1.254) so mine is 192.168.1.254 press enter and you should see a drive marked USB1. Now you can access the drive from any device on your network.
Oh and on XBMC the drive showed up under SMB>HOME>BTHUB4>USB1
Usb External Hard Drive Cable
I’m off to go watch Game of Thrones in bed. Ta ta! x