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Are the usb ports on the airport extreme and express ONLY for printers or external hard drives? Or can you hook up other usb devices through them? Thanks.
 
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Are the usb ports on the airport extreme and express ONLY for printers or external hard drives? Or can you hook up other usb devices through them? Thanks.
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Apple says that you can use it for Printers and Hard Drives, I would have no reason to believe that isn't the case. What are you looking to share besides a hard drive or a printer?
 
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I figured the same thing, but I can't see how the airport would be able to differentiate one USB device from another. I just thought of it as sort of a wireless USB connection. I have a wireless mouse, and a USB recording interface that I would want to hook up to it if possible. If that is the case it doesn't make much sense to me, why limit the airport to just 2 devices when there are so many others that you might want to hook up but cant carry around the room with you? Has anyone tried this or is anyone with an airport willing to try?
 
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I figured the same thing, but I can't see how the airport would be able to differentiate one USB device from another. I just thought of it as sort of a wireless USB connection. I have a wireless mouse, and a USB recording interface that I would want to hook up to it if possible. If that is the case it doesn't make much sense to me, why limit the airport to just 2 devices when there are so many others that you might want to hook up but cant carry around the room with you? Has anyone tried this or is anyone with an airport willing to try?
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The idea behind putting a USB port on a wireless router is to enable a user to share devices like printers and hard drives wirelessly. This is possible because there is already logic and OS functionality designed to support Network Attached Storage and Networked Printers.

USB devices come in thousands of flavors - and each one would require custom software and drivers to make work in a shared manner.
 
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I see, that makes sense. Do you know of any company that makes a bluetooth USB hub or something similar? Id really like to only have to unplug a power cable when I want to move my MBP.
 

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