This comes as no surprise, given that the last updates for the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule models internals came in 2013 (to include the 802.11ac Wave 1 standard), while the compact AirPort. Just adding another frustrated user - same use case - had an Airport Extreme with an external hard drive and all was well with centralized back-ups avail to all laptops on network - now that seems a no go despite USB port so thinking about returning the silly things.
The AGP Power Macs were the first to include an AirPort slot and DVI video port. The computers could house a total of three hard drives, two 128 GB ATA hard drives and up to a single 20GB SCSI hard drive, with the installation of a SCSI card. The 500 MHz version was reintroduced on February 16, 2000, accompanied by 400 MHz and 450 MHz models.
FileBrowser does not need anything in the Login box, so leave that blank. Type in your AirPort Extreme administrator password in the Password Box.
Airport Extreme Compatible Hard Drives External
I don't have a PC here to test, but in the past, it was easy to access the hard drive(s) attached to the AirPort Extreme by......
Airport Extreme Compatible Hard Drives
Opening Internet Explorer
In the address bar, type in IPaddress of the AirPort Extreme
Click or press Enter
So, for example if the IP address of the AirPort Extreme was 10.0.1.1, then you would type the following in the address bar of Internet Explorer:
![Extreme Extreme](https://www.iclarified.com/images/tutorials/1012/4883/4883.png)
10.0.1.1 and press Enter
Hopefully, one of the PC guys will see this post and provide more information.
Feb 5, 2017 7:23 AM
I can't complain about feeling shorted; my eero kit was free. But I was really kind of shocked that this next gen tech can make no use of a USB drive. I ripped out a pair of well functioning but WAF-disapproved Asus RT-66s. I'm happy with the simplicity of this system as well as it's looks and user friendliness, but pulling up short of managing a simple storage medium in the network seems a bit bush league. I used to operate a NAS, network shares, drive cages, etc. (Shiver). I replaced a lot of that with a passport drive plugged into my Asus. It helped the family drop things for each other immensely. Can you not implement a simple (feature lean) private file share for anyone/thing connected to the network? For anyone reading this, what's the next simplest thing I might do here? I don't like running PC's all the time to support a file share. My NAS's are all old and in pieces. I have a plethora of 1-2 TB drives laying around. What's the smartest way to solve the problem of:
![Airport Extreme Compatible Hard Drives Airport Extreme Compatible Hard Drives](https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/27354-40670-003-Other-WiFi-Devices-xl.jpg)
'I have a requirement as household IT lackey to have a reliable and persistent (i.e. worthy of configuring across 30+ devices and I won't regret it), minimal cost file share on the home network to which authenticated devices can read and write'