At the risk of cursing my weather station I am going to give an update. I tried the cheap solution above and so far all is working well. I separated the cables by as much as possible and added aluminum foil to the connection. My usb connection has not had a problem for almost 2 weeks now (w/in a couple days of a record). The only other time it lasted this long was when I left the continental United States for almost 2 weeks. Yeah, I thought leaving the mainland for Hawaii was the fix, but I ran out of money and had to come home, everything crashed w/in 2 days of my return.
Thanks for the advice and I’ll report when and if everything crashes again.