Next to the row of WAN and LAN ports on the back of most routers, youll often find a USB port. Unless youve read through your router manual or experimented yourself, you may not know what it capable of. But that port is surprisingly versatile: it can turn a USB storage device into a networked drive, for instance, or enable a backup internet connection when your ISP suffers an outage. Routers are fundamentally low power computers with a CPU, memory and a lightweight operating system. Newer...
