Whoa, I hate to appear the idiot I probably am but you lost me at Nat.. Also, I've not had issues with my firewall and never winter nights up to this point however I have made sure that windows firewall always let's never winter nights through.. Beyond that I am stumped.
Its a desktop Hp 18 all in one..windows 8 My internet connection is my Samsung G5 sports hotspot via sprint who I have called and we did a remote reset thing which is the equivalent of a factory reset of a router apparently which did not work.
My computer guy rescheduled for next week..
I am almost tempted to pay the geek squad to help me fix this remotely.
This weekend I will also be trying a Dsl connection when the equipment arrives... For a month or so until I get cable internet here.
Meanwhile I'd be happy to try the above... But I might need a better idea of exactly what it all means.