I know I have touched on this subject before, but I continue to seek a solution that I can understand.

In this world of ever-increasing connectedness I find myself with 29 permanently connected devices (mostly cabled but some wifi too).

And there another 10 or so sometimes connected devices (mostly wifi).

Plus 2 port forwarding rules. It seems these count towards the 32 limit as well.

Last weekend four family members came to stay bringing another 7 devices between them.

Well it all went pear shaped I can tell you.

I found myself having to scramble and unconnect stuff to keep everyone happy.

The port forwarding rules I think disappeared of their own accord to make way for new connections, as I did not delete them but they were certainly gone.

Thank goodness my security cameras have their own little network, or I would have trouble getting them to stay live.

All of my devices are "quiet" most of the time, just being there ready for when I need to use them.

But it is a pain having to physically cycle devices on and off the network when I discover that what I want to use isn't connected any more because 32 other things already are.

And only 2 people live here (admittedly I probably own more techy stuff than your average home body), but how on earth do families manage?

So I'm actively searching for a better solution.

I'm pretty sure I have to keep the HG659b for the phone connection.

How would I setup a 2nd router to manage all the "network" stuff? And what router wont stop me from having all my stuff connected.