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While your router might seem like a single-purpose device, you can use its USB port for a variety of cool things. Here are some use cases worth exploring.

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USB Wi-Fi adapters allow you to add wireless internet capabilities to computers that wouldn’t otherwise have it. These may be older devices that never came with a Wi-Fi adapter or newer ones that have ...

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