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Turvey wrote:

 

2. I am a little reluctant to reset the router to factory settings.  I read a couple of postings saying that this did not reset the"latest" firmware to the original factory version.

 

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Correct. What a reset does do is to erase settings that may be block you from various things and that may interfere with operations.

You don't want to get back to the original firmware. That is bound to be out of date.

If you really want to do that, you can manually "update" the firmware with the original version.

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Turvey wrote:

 

3. I thought about bypassing the router, but I'll need an inline coupler to do this. 

Thanks for your help and advice.

 

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No idea what that means.

What DexterJB is suggesting is that you unplug your PC from the router and plug it into the modem instead.

To make this test, unplug PC from router, unplug router from modem, plug PC into modem.

If your setup makes that difficult, then you have a badly arranged system. It is important to be able to swap connections between various devices.

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Turvey wrote:

...I want to make sure it will overwrite the currently installed version (1.0.1.50).  Will it do that? 

 

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Yes.