I know it is a mess but it connected all the PC’s and I didn’t have to spend any $ .

I pulled the wires on the entire house networking stuff. Now it’s just one PC connected to the modem, still no VPN

If you still think the home stuff might interfere I’ll explain more here, if not just disregard. The master PC is connected to the sat. modem via one ethernet card. This PC is also connected to a second PC via Ethernet and a twisted cable (no switch). This “networked is bridged to the master-modem network so the second PC can connect to the web. The third PC is connect to a TR switch and the master PC is connected to this TR switch as well. This connection is not bridged to the web and is only used to connect the master PC to the third PC so I can take control of the master PC remotely via the third PC. If your not totally confused now I am amazed 