In reply to a post by Timalay:

I still keep them for a back up if the Hub One goes down.

I would have honesty thought that was an obvious consideration in the first place

Well I obviously wasn't going to throw them away.

In reply to a post by Timalay:

I just called them up and asked. I'm out of contract also so they probably wanted to keep me. I'm more than happy with my service from Plusnet, so a 18 month contract doesn't both me. There are a few that do broadband only (where you can have a phone line somebody else), but most of them seem more expensive than Plusnet.

Some smaller providers will do broadband only but as you said they are more expensive. i still have till August until my contract is out, I am not sure if I will move either. I will have a look and see if my old ISP have sorted things out and I may go back to them. i still have their equipment on my roof, so at least they will not have to charge me installation fees.

The only problem is could I go back to 10Mb/s?

I suppose there is no way that one can connect a USB disk drive directly (with the right adapter) to an ethernet port on a PN router?

Meldrew
(I voted NO in 1975 and look what has happened since!)

This?

But seeing as the Plusnet router will not be in use ...?

Whether or not it would work technically is another question, but cheap enough to try in to a router that doesn't have a USB socket. Or has a printer already on it. Or to a switch.

I always found getting disks or printers to work on a router's USB port was messy, and different for every make of router that I did it on.

Selfishly I was thinking of my PN router! As I don't trust the "cloud" I was thinking of attaching a memory stick with some files on I could access from a remote location without turning the computer on.

I do like a nice cheap gadget though. Many thanks!

Let us know if it works or not. Could be useful to someone.

Getting the USB memory stick drivers up and running probably isn't going to happen, even if the computer was running. Maybe if it was loaded before the computer was turned off it would work and continue to, but I have doubts.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 26-Jan-16 14:54:45)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

This?

That's a curious device. The details seem to suggest it will only be suitable for connecting a USB modem to a LAN port. As far as I was aware, modems and routers use Ethernet for networking, not USB. Hmm.

Only thing I can think of is one of those 56k dial-up usb modem things, but I doubt that will work unless plugged into a PC with drivers.

I couldn't find any details .

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I couldn't find any details .

I had a poke around out of curiosity, and it appears not to support usb storage devices. It would be neat if it did.