I was able to follow those commands and log into the shell and issue the commands. The commands execute just as quick as they do when I plug the AD2USB directly into my PC. Something in the Vera interface must be interferring. I have the new switching coming in early next week. I don't think it will fix the issue, but I did discover that I didn't bridge my ISP's modem to my WLAN and I probably had a double NAT situation going on. That's been resolved, but now I'm out of ports, hence the switch.
I will likely have to wipe the vera box and then start with adding just the AD2USB plugin and go from there!