On 2018 Nov 21 15:01:14, you wrote to me:

[...]
 JS> it made no difference to the connection issue of being able to make
 JS> outbound connections. I was able to connect and ping the router. Oddly
 JS> I was also able to ping the Google's DNS servers ok. But was unable to
 JS> connect or ping Google itself OR anywhere else.

if you're still playing with this problem, i'm curious what traceroute says...
ping is only basically helpful... traceroute can point to where the breakage
is...

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