I hesitate to mess with it right now for fear I will take another 30 minute odyssey of cycling hell.

My Linksys router DHCP range is 192.168.1.101-250

The 502 LAN port is not enabled and is running with different IP address even if it were enabled.

It currently reads as this:

Device Mode: Bridge
NAT maximum ports: 1024 (range: 0 - 4096, default is 1024)
NAT TCP timeout: 3600 (range: 0 - 3600, default is 3600)
NAT UDP timeout: 300 (range: 0 - 3600, default is 300)
Uplink bandwidth: Disabled
Downlink bandwidth: Disabled
Enable UPnP support: No
Reply to ICMP on WAN port: Yes (Unit will not respond to PING from WAN side if set to No)
WAN side HTTP/Telnet access: Yes (WAN side access will be rejected if set to No)
Cloned WAN MAC Addr: (in hex format)
Enable LAN DHCP: No
LAN DHCP Base IP: 192.168.2.1 (base IP for the LAN port, default is 192.168.2.1)
LAN DHCP Start IP: 100 (default is 100)
LAN DHCP End IP: 199 (default is 199)
LAN Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (default is 255.255.255.0)
DHCP IP Lease Time: 120 (in units of hours, default is 120 hours or 5 days)