Well I did some more tinkering and I think I finally figured it out! What I thought were lock-ups in fact were not. It looks like the pins on the WAN port are pressed quite a bit lower then they should be and it wasn't making a good contact and the device kept dropping, but it was enough to keep the ACT light on. I tried a different network cable and the whole shebang. Finally I came up with this solution:



Its been connected for 75 minutes and no hiccups so far. I also want to thank all the people via the forum who tried to help out, it was appreciated and nice to know there is a community here that is willing to assist in issues.