ok mike. you were correct. dont know why i did not see that. i had set up a olk lyksys roughter with dd-wrt. its default ip address is 192.168.1.1. my main roughter is set as 192.168.0.1. so i went back into my dd-wart roughter which i have set up as a wireless repeater. and canged the default ip address to 102.168.0.2. re-boot roughter and went to each pc on network. and did a ipconfig /release and renew. bingo. everything up and running. everbody talking to each other. thinks for pointing that out to me. sometimes it just takes a fresh set of eyes to see what is right in front of you. thanks again.

Thanks, everyone. Chuggerguy -- I appreciate your doing an image search. I'll have to learn how to do that. I read about the person and circumstances. What a sad, crazy political landscape. Steve J -- I came about as close as I could to elbowing her in the throat. She is very much a busy body & takes it upon herself to intrude. She plays cagey. I only got the most minimal of "okay", "sorry" weak apology from her. I don't see her often, but have to interact with her from time to time. Yes, I was foolish. As for apps, I guess I don't understand them but was under the impression that I would have to have the "location services" "ON" pretty much all the time. I'm operating under some encumbrances, that limit how much I can get done and concentrate. It's like having a chunk of my brain dedicated to coping. I should have upgraded/updated way back. I will try what Elmer suggested, then, do a clean update and reset -- as soon as I can. I think in order to stream directly from CNN or MSNBC, etc., I need to get the apps. ACraftyLady-- thank you. Yes, I made a mistake gong to and oddball site, but I don't have cable and I am, especially since 2016, a news junky. So while resting my back, I like listening to streaming news. I read a lot as well, but sometimes am too exhausted to read. The busy-body helper is being evasive, but I'm confident that she went to a .com site, as in FindNHmoney dot com She's being coy (immature) and I cannot get much from her (yes, I asked politely, gave her the benefit of the doubt, and was patient. Three emails. I don't think she really gets what she did wrong. And I'm unable to get a straight answer from her as to what details she provided. But from the many spam emails, she clearly gave a full name (which I don't use), email (for whatever jack butt reason?!), birth date on and on. Who needs corporate data breaches, with someone like her? It would be tempting to pay her back for her "help." Elmer -- Good idea. That might help and I'll do that soon. Those steps used to work with my desk PC when I'd get caught in some "no exit" loop. My PC has up to date protection. Steve and others. I respect your comments about security. On huge sec flaw in real life is Medicare. In many cases, a person has to have their ss# as there M-care ID number. I've tried appealing to gov and "they" keep arguing that it must be and remain that way. Sometimes they attempt to argue that "everything is computerized," but that is not true and even so, is not necessarily secure. When subscribers go for an appointment, they are asked for their M-care ID. So, the card and ID number is first handed to a clerical worker (human) before it is entered into their office database (with who-knows-what sort of security). It is not unheard of for human staff to trade in these numbers. I have a few friends who have a state chosen Medicare and that agency gives them a totally separate ID number. My driver's license is a totally different number (that s s). Thanks again, folks.

I've mentioned these before, but for gentle and sweet chapters, read the David Grayson books....they're available now for free on Project Gutenberg...Adventures in Contentment...Adventures in Friendship...like taking a mental vacation. https://www.amazon.com/David-Grayson-Complete-Collection-Contentment/dp/B089TWRXLV/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=david+grayson&qid=1618484006&sr=8-1

I started watching "The Thing About Pam" but I found it too depressing and chilling. It shows pretty well the way a psychopath can sometimes easily manipulate people, but it also shows how police and prosecutors can sometimes take the overly simple and easy way out. Not to give it all away, (although you can google the way the case went) the husband they pinned the murder on had three friends he was with who testified he was with them on a game night, plus he made a verifiable munchies stop at an Arby's during the time the murder took place. This was not only discounted, but if these guys LIED and gave him a false alibi, they should have been prosecuted for lying and being co-conspirators in a murder. They never followed up, which is a big red flag. That's why the feds ended up investigating the prosecutor's office after the fiasco was over. Thank goodness the husband had a good lawyer!! So that's why it was hard for me to watch, the chilling behavior of a psychopath as far as being psychologically manipulative and not having any feelings of guilt for doing some icily calculated evil. They can pass lie detector tests because of that too. And also the inane "confirmation bias" of the police, that was hard to stomach as being entertaining, even in a fictional account. After suffering through about 2/3 of "Inventing Anna" (another dramatization of the behavior of a manipulative psychopath and institutional ineptness/easy gullibility) I couldn't take it any more, so I haven't had the stomach for "The Dropout." Gonna have to give the others a try though. If you've never been around a psychopath you might find their behavior "weird" but that is only in hindsight. They really can do heinous things and not bat an eyelash, and often let themselves either "forget" or get confused about the details, they live in a world where truth is whatever suits them at the moment, they don't relate to it the way a normal person does, they perceive the world as something that revolves around their needs 24/7 and they can bend to their immediate whims in an ongoing way . . . they never reach a "bottom line" or a "moment of truth." It just doesn't exist in their mental toolbox. The mental toolboxes of science and math are ways of thinking and perceiving the world that can help us counter psychopathic influences. One can go too much into any discipline, but they are definitely a counter balance. That's one reason I went into the science field, to expand my mental toolbox.