I know wish to know if there is a limit on the USB drive size, some other threads suggest a limit of 500GB but one user said they got a 2TB external HDD (via usb) to work. Has anyone got anything over 500GB. Jan 30, 2014 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?
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…
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.
External Hard Drive 1 Tb
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!
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.
Bt Home Hub 5 Usb External Hard Drive Doesn T Show Up
Oh and on XBMC the drive showed up under SMB>HOME>BTHUB4>USB1
Usb External Hard Drive For Laptop
I’m off to go watch Game of Thrones in bed. Ta ta! x