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Big Thank You to everybody the chimed in.
To @Calender for the link to "Wireless Wizard". That little program helped me zoom in on channel usage.
To @Helmut Thanks for were in the maze of router settings they keep the channel selections. I looked a long time and never thought that I needed to go thru the wireless SETUP ?
Final update - Now running just fine. Why that laptop decided to select the 2.4g band is beyond me. It had always hooked up the 5g band. Now its hooking its hooking up to the 5g band. Now I did change to router setting for the 2.4g band to channel 10. It was set to "Anychannel" before. All other 2.4 devices are now using channel 10. Last bit of news is that using the "Wireless Wizard" I've noticed that the signal strength on the other router is now much less than it was before. I assume who ever it was moved it.
Last but not least, "Is it common to have a overpowering router set to same channel that your using and have your equipment having drop outs as I described above ?" I will mark this thread as SOLVED.