> [...] What i really need to be asking is do you know of an item that
> can fit 14-20 ethernet cables instead of using all these
> adapters/routers. [...]
To me, that sounds like a job for a network switch. Connect one
switch port to a LAN port on the main router. Connect client devices to
the other switch ports. Switches are commonly available with port
counts like 5, 8, 16, 24, ... More ports generally means more money.
(You can build a tree from smaller ones, but one wide one might perform
better.) When buying used junk, I'd try to avoid older models with
fans.
> - get my 2 routers to communicate (I have no access to go into
> settings in the router I rent from my cable company so I still need to
> access my wndr4500 for my survelience cameras and other special settings
> like Qos, port forwarding etc.
I don't know how that's supposed to work if you have no ability to
configure the main router. Of course, I still don't know what your "the
router I rent from my cable company" is.
> [...] Or maybe I just need to find a new wi-fi/cable modem/router that
> does everything I need.
One which could be configured to do useful things might be nice. But
that "everything I need" criterion seems to be ill-defined, at best.
> - get my satelllite internet to connect to this router again - no
> wi-fi avail on satellite
"my satelllite internet"? How much do you think that I know about
that?
> [...] I think I need to port forward something from the old router to
> the new or vica versa. [...]
That might depend on what the actual problem which you are trying to
solve might be. Again, if you "have no access to go into settings in
the router I rent from my cable company", then I don't see how you can
do anything interesting (like specify a DMZ server, or configure port
forwarding, static routes, ...) on it.
> [...] The wireless on the wndr4500 was never good! [...]
What else is it good for?
So far as I can tell, you still haven't revealed why you have all
this network stuff, and what you want to connect to what.
