Well, I called Comcast. They said they can't do anything because they don't support 3rd party stuff. End of call.

I called Netgear. This guy was successful in getting my netgear to see the modem. With the working config of: Modem > Linksys > Netgear > PC, he had me remove the WAN connection from the Linksys and plug it into the Netgear (no power cycling of anything). Then log into the Netgear and start the setup wizard. It FINALLY saw a Dynamic IP setup and configured for it. (That's what my manual settings were anyway). But, now it works!

I now have full connections at all pc's like this: Modem > Netgear > PC's.  All is good.......so I thought.

While everything is good there.....I have flakey connection issues with the wireless. Can anyone shed some light on this?

I had it set on channel 3 and it seemed to be better. I now have had it on the ESP (9) for about 6 hrs now. Not much problem at all now. In fact, here's a dslreports speed test from my wirelessly connected laptop:

That's 6.6Mb/s download and 1.4Mb/s Upload. That's normal. My connection has not been lost either.

Thanks for the info. I was on that path already.

Whoo Hoo! Got a better result tonight. (Still through wireless from the Laptop)

That's 8.991Mb/s Down and 1.445Mb/s Up. Impressive! (Test done to LA,CA server from Denver,Co)

Now, on to the Dallas server:

WOW!

Now, how about Palo Alto, CA?

 Now, that's coming back. But still faster than my last post.

Over the years, Comcast has gotten faster and faster and faster.

Maybe tonight (Tues-3am) everyone's passed out (even most nightowls) and I've got it all, or They are starting to up the speed once again. In order to compete with Telco's DSL, they have to. We'll see. I'd like them to boost the upload speed as well. It's been going up also, but not by much.

BTW, obviously, I'm having absolutely NO issues with this router, wireless or LAN.

(This post was for an update.) I'm done now.