@Hotrod 

I would also look at the internet light to see if it turns amber. If not, try modifying the WAN DNS servers.

@ArcherC8 Luckily I still have my cable modem as we don't use it anymore. So I connected my PC directly to the cable modem and put it through it's paces. Ran speed tests with and with out the VPN turned on. I even did a speedtest with VPN on while downloading a big file just to stress it as much as I could. My connection held firm. So I connect back to the TP-link and it loses conection just trying to turn on the VPN. None of the lights one the TP-Link are turning amber at anytime. The router will still be giving a WAN connection to the rest of the devices on the network when this happens most of the time. The only way to reconect and get internet access is to reboot the router. I had hoped that the firmware update it took a couple days ago would have fixed it but it didn't. Like I said in my first post I've reset it to factory many times and that does no good. With that being the case what other than a harware failure could it be? Oh Almost forgot when this problem first started I was using the cable modem along with the router. It was while researching this problem I discovered that I didn't need the cable modem anymore. At least not since we drop our cable tv service and just kept the internet.

@ArcherC8 

I'm not sure why the cable modem is not required with my ISP but this problem started before I disconnected the cable modem and just started using the router.

@Hotrod 

Different ISPs have different set ups. I have seen where some have just an Ethernet cable instead of the more common RG6 cable that fits into a modem. Most times it is in multi-home or apartments where I have seen it.