Could firmware improve USB stability/reliability?

[Poul Bak]

I don't use USB on the router, but I have a NAS which was also slow. It turned out it was because Windows 11 24H2 ENFORCED smb signing. That works fine when connecting to a real PC with a modern processor, but NASes and routers have very small CPUs and they can't handle the extra work. Turning off smb signing in Windows helped a lot.

You can try the same, if it doesn't work just reenable it again.

Here's a link describing it: Disable smb singing in Windows 11

 

[sfx2000]

Ultimately - SMB on routers is a trail of tattered rainbows and unicorn tears...

It's always been a checkbox feature, and compatibility with more recent OS's like Windows 7 have had compromises in performance and security...

A router is not a NAS