Easier Solution to Router Handeling

Hey,

I just recently moved into a house that me and some friends are renting. Internet and all that lot is included, but to my dismay the physical setup of the network is a complete disaster. Huddled in the corner of my new basement is a mass of cords and two or three routers to split the cords to all rooms of the house. At first I had no problems with port's being closed, at least up until recently

I'm wondering (hoping) if there is a program out there that can identify all of the routers in the mess of a chain (or at least the ones my pc's connection passes thorough) so I can open the port required with a little more ease.

Basically, I'm not sure if it's REALLY worth the effort for me to spend an entire afternoon sorting out the mess down there. 5 foot ceilings, and from my last estimate about 50 damn cellar spiders (the creepy, Tim-Burton-esque lil'...) and no light just ain't worth it for a video game.

I myself actually had to deal with the mess once when we switched service providers and the installer couldn't be bothered to hook the modem into the network himself. Spending the half hour down there running cable cords all over the place was enough for me.

Anyway. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

-Roth

 

why bother with a program to identify routers when you can fix it all now?

rip it all out and use one router. I'd actually be surprised if you really have "multiple routers". I'm betting you have one router, and a few cheap switches (or hubs) daisy-chained together. Even if you do have multiple routers, those will slow you down with a lot of extra network chatter.

If you're going to try and straighten it out, at least make yourself a map of which devices are connected to which. You might well find some redundant stuff there that you could remove. I'm sure it won't be a "whole afternoon", but more like an hour or two.

 

if they are standard routers, then 1 router will only supply internet to 4 rooms. So more than one may be needed. But Krush is right, it would be a good idea to sort it all out. If you have 1 directly connected to the modem, then that is the only one you need to configure, the other router(s) can just be set to default and you could probably even turn off the firewall, and any other settings that would block port(s) .
have fun, and good luck