TopGlobal MB8000 modem restarts when sending large amounts of data

Recently had a problem with my TopGlobal MB8000 modem restarting whenever I sent a large amount of data, like a 4Mb picture. Swapping out the ethernet cable seems to have fixed the problem.

Chicago Riotfest 2014 Sunday Lineup

Must See

SOCIAL DISTORTION
THE CURE

Really Want to See

ANDREW W.K.
BLUE MEANIES
BOUNCING SOULS
BRING ME THE HORIZON
CEREBRAL BALLZY
CHEAP TRICK
DROPKICK MURPHYS
I AM THE AVALANCHE
MUDHONEY
NAKED RAYGUN
ONLY CRIME
PATTI SMITH
PRIMUS
PUP
THURSTON MOORE
WEEZER

Would be Great to See

DADS
HOT SNAKES
IN THE VALLEY BELOW
KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
LA DISPUTE
LAURA STEVENSON
MINERAL
MODERN BASEBALL
MY GOLD MASK
NEW FOUND GLORY
SILVERSTEIN
TEAM SPIRIT
THE WHIGS

Would be Good to See

ARCHIE POWELL & THE EXPORTS
BILLY BRAGG
CHUMPED
LUCKI ECK$
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
SURVAY SAYS!
THE FRONT BOTTOMS
THE HOLD STEADY
THE MENZINGERS

Any Live Music is Good Music!

TINY MOVING PARTS
LUCERO
SHOW YOU SUCK
SUPERCHUNK
TEGAN AND SARA

Chicago RiotFest 2014 Saturday Lineup

Must See

SAMHAIN
THE ORWELLS

Really Want to See

7 SECONDS
ANTI-FLAG
BUZZCOCKS
DIE ANTWOORD
FACE TO FACE
MARKY RAMONE & GUESTS
ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES
THE AFGHAN WHIGS
THE DANDY WARHOLS
THE FLAMING LIPS
WU-TANG CLAN

Would Be Great to See

BRONCHO
COCK SPARRER
DESCENDENTS
EX FRIENDS
FRNKIERO ANDTHE CELLABRATION
METRIC
MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
NOSTALGHIA
RESTORATIONS
SAMIAM
SKATERS
STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO
THE CROMBIES
THE PICTUREBOOKS
WAVVES

Would be Good to See

CITY AND COLOUR
JESSICA HERNANDEZ AND THE DELTAS
LEMURIA
PAUL WELLER
ROSE'S PAWN SHOP
RX BANDITS
SAOSIN
SAY ANYTHING
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
THE AMERICAN SCENE
THE GET UP KIDS
THE PIZZA UNDERGROUND
THE UNLIKELY CANDIDATES
THE USED
TOKYO POLICE CLUB

Any Live Music is Good Music!

CITIZEN
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
THE BOTS
THE NATIONAL
THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE...

Chicago RiotFest 2014 Friday line up

Friday

Must See

JANE'S ADDICTION
RISE AGAINST
SLAYER
THE MURDER CITY DEVILS
WOUNDS

Really Want to See

ALL
GOGOL BORDELLO
GWAR
NOFX
OF MICE & MEN
PLAGUE VENDOR
PUSSY RIOT (PANEL W/ NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA & MASHA ALEKHINA)
RADKEY
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
THE OFFSPRING

Want to See

CLUTCH
RED CITY RADIO
WE CAME AS ROMANS

Sure, would be good to see

BABY BABY
CIRCA SURVIVE
FAILURE
PITY SEX
SENSES FAIL
SOMOS
TITLE FIGHT

Any live music is good music!

BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS
EMAROSA
MASTODON
PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH
THE HOTELIER

Except this band

FROM INDIAN LAKES

Belkin router F6D4230-4 v1 not letting Facebook app connect

Last week I started having problems with Facebook on both my Nexus 7 tablet and my Nexus phone when connected to my Wi-Fi router.
I haven't been able to find a solution on Google, and restarting my devices, router and modern hasn't helped.
Symptoms (both are intermittent, but 'more often than not':

• Facebook groups often won't load. Click the group link and it goes back to news feed. 
• Facebook notification list won't load. Clocks for a while and then says 'Couldn't fetch notifications'

however

• Facebook news feed loads and refreshes fine. 
• Facebook chat works fine. 

The kicker is that the symptoms are very similar in both the app and the mobile chrome web page from the tablet and phone. The second kicker is that on my computer, also connected via Wi-Fi and running chrome, Facebook works perfectly.

My phone not on Wi-Fi works fine. My tablet connected to my phone hot spot works fine.

Since the devices work fine not on Wi-Fi, I'm assuming they are working correctly. Since the computer works fine on Wi-Fi, and the devices worked fine on it last week, I'm assuming the Wi-Fi set up is correct. I'm at a loss.

My set up:

• modern is a Top Global MB8000 wired to the router 
• router is an aging Belkin F6D4230-4 v1000  with disabled security. Toggling the firewall off doesn't help. Putting the tablet int he router's DMZ doesn't help

My guess is that the app uses different network connections than the web site, and those connections are intermittently getting whacked (technical term) by the router. Current workaround is to use the MB8000's Wi-Fi instead of the router for the mobile devices.

Sociobiomorphism

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Refinance from Hell

In October I went to do a home refinance with my current lender, Nationstar Mortgage. The rate was 4.5%, a significant savings over my current rate. At closing the paperwork was a little messed up, but the big problem was that although they set my signing date for the end of the month, they set the actual date for the refi to occur on the 4th day of the next month. This was a problem for me because, coming out of an FHA loan, all interest for the month is paid on the first day. So I'd have ended up paying $1700 for that. On top of that, the adjusted origination charge (read that as, very roughly,  "how much you pay to get this loan rate") was another $1700 I'd have to pay. In addition, rates had gone down a bit since I started the process, something my lender neglected to tell me.

When you refinance you're given a 3-day grace period to rescind the agreement. So I rescinded. I gave Nationstar a chance to get me a better rate but they "couldn't", so I ended up getting a different loan quote from Crown Mortgage, at 4.125% and an adjusted origination charge of (-$1800). That's right, they'd pay me. When I let Nationstar know this, they suddenly could get me a better rate, but I declined.

Since I'm writing about it here, you know it screwed up more. Crown couldn't get the payoff amount request to go through at Nationstar, so I had to call. Only to find out that Nationstar never processed the recission. It took weeks to settle this, and by that time mortgage rates rose, and loan costs rose. A 4.125% loan now costs me 0.25% of my loan instead of paying me. Sigh. So now, in order to get a better cost, I'm getting a higher rate. I'm getting a 4.5% loan again, but this time the adjusted origination charge is ($-1700). Hopefully at the end of this month.