He who is Paul in Houston TX said on Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:50:15 -0500:

I admit I was playing with the routing table, trying to learn it, but now
the fun is over because I screwed up and just want to get back to 'normal'.

Why not just reset the router to factory specs?
Hold the reset button in while powering up.

I'm confused by the routing table, but even more confused by what you just
wrote about the *router*.

Does the SOHO router have *anything* to do with the Windows 10 desktop
routing table other than to assign a single IP address to the Windows 10
desktop?

Isn't the *rest* of the routing table (other than that one line), created
and maintained by Windows herself?

Anyway, to completely *remove* the router from the equation, I set up a
network to my ISP that is completely separate, so it's now just my Windows
10 desktop tied to the transceiver (it's what you'd call a modem but it's
different in that it's a transceiver).

The routing table was *still* immensely complex with no router in the
equation.

Does your route print look like mine?
C:\ route print
IPv4 Route Table
================================================== =========================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.50.0.1 10.50.0.100 276
10.50.0.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 10.50.0.100 276
10.50.0.100 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.50.0.100 276
10.50.0.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.50.0.100 276
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
192.168.56.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.56.1 266
192.168.56.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.56.1 266
192.168.56.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.56.1 266
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 192.168.56.1 266
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 10.50.0.100 276
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.56.1 266
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.50.0.100 276
================================================== =========================
Persistent Routes:
Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.50.0.1 Default
================================================== =========================