connecting several routers

[Deer Dance14]

a friend of mine is planning on throwing a sort of LAN party on his incomming birthday, he wants to connect about 16 computers together. the problem is that no one has a router that big. So we were wondering how we can connect multiple routers together, or if there is another, better solution?

thanks for any help

 

[nico1606]

Usually you can piggy back routers together using the last port (4th port in a 4-port router or 8th port in an 8 port router).

Depends on which type of router you have, but usually piggy backing is doable.

 

[agissi]

Yeah, you just plug a router into another router - thats what we do at every lan. I bring a router, the host has a router, and another friend brings one, all of which are four ports.

Only down side is they all but the first turn into 3 ports :-\

 

[RealBlackStuff]

If you still have the time, a Cisco router with 24 ports is for sale at Ebay for $ 5.- + shipping
See this post:
https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13261

 

[Deer Dance14]

thanks

 

[Nodsu]

Don't use routers! It will be helluva expensive and complicated and a performance issue and probably a lot of setting up.

You need a router only for the internet connection. Use several switches or hubs to provide connections for all the local machines. Finding hubs or switches with 16+ ports is not a problem.