[Prudence]

To clarify:

Last night I *could* get a connection on Ryan's computer when connected directly to the modem - but only after doing a system restore. This morning I can also get a connection on my laptop when connected directly to the modem. So the modem appears to be working and was working last night as well.

And neither wireless nor wired connection works for the router at the moment. I get a connection in that I have the lovely connection icon, I get a valid IP address (not a 169) and the computer *says* it's connected, but I can't access the internet.

And yes, I've done all the cycling. Multiple times. With different set-ups of wired modem, wired router, wireless router, naked mole-rat, etc... The only thing that I've not tried that I can think of is try connecting via router and seeing if that will run the wireless printer to check whether the internal network is working at all, but after over 3 hours working on it last night and a deadline today to turn in my internship applications I'm not up for that at the moment.