Other devices than printer and external HD possible on Airport Extreme

This was my plan.
I connect a USB HUB to my Airport Extreme, on which I connect my VectorWorks USB-stick, my printer, my scanner, my external HD (which also operates as a HUB, with my iPod Shuffle, my iPod and my iPhone (the last one not yet, but it is ready for it)).
But is this setup possible?
I just connected my VectorWorks USB-stick (a stick I need to run VectorWorks, a CAD-program) on my HD (via HUB, via Airport Extreme), but that didn't work. Then I connected it to my USB HUB (via Airport Extreme), but that didn't work as well.
Is there a way to connect all my USB devices on a HUB, via Airport Extreme

As you have discovered, that is NOT possible.
The USB port on the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) only supports USB printers and USB hard drives.
It will not support devices which act as "keys" for software/hardware authentication.

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OK, I am not following you exactly and I guess it is important to know what the existing set-up is like. Maybe you will understand my amateurish language. Before I moved in to this condo, the manager of the complex asked me if I need to use the ethernet ports in the rooms or will I be setting up a wireless connection. I said, for now I will be using the ethernet ports in the rooms of the condo. She said Ok, I will be up to your condo to put in a modem. (She could have said router or modem, I am not sure if there is a difference, but I do know the Airport Extreme is considered a router.) She opened this box that is on the wall while she said this is where the "T1" line comes into your condo, and T1 (I think I have the right term she used) is the fastest way to get around the internet. In the box in the wall is an electrical outlet (which the tiny blue modem (I will call this a modem because I am not sure what it is) is plugged into. In the back of the tiny blue modem are 5 ethernet ports and that is all, except for the power cord which connects to the side of the tiny blue modem. In the box, already screwed into place is a CAT5 ethernet strip, for lack of a better term that has 12 ethernet ports but only 4 are actually marked. I think the four that are marked are the ones that can be used, if I needed this many, but I am only using 3 and the ethernet cable goes from one of the ethernet ports on this CAT5 strip which is connected to the T1 line, and one of the 3 ethernet cables goes from the back of the tiny blue modem to one of the ethernet ports on this CAT5 strip (one that is marked as previously described) So I can hook up to the internet by using one of the 3 ethernet plugs in the various rooms of the condo or I can use the MiFi2200 from Verizon for a wireless connection. I have already told you why I prefer not to use the Verizon MiFi2200 and why I would like to set-up my Airport Extreme.
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