said by daveinpoway:Update- yesterday, I spoke with someone who seemed to know something. She felt that my router was perhaps "too sophisticated" and thus was preventing their equipment from maintaining a consistent IP address on my network.
These two sentences seem to disprove each other. I don't know if i've run into a situation where a router was 'too sophisticated' for a device to maintain an IP address.
Are there any diagnostics on the device? Can you confirm that it isn't pulling an IP address when you dock it?
Can you look in your router log and see if it's pulling an IP address when you dock it?
Can you ping the device at any point? See if it is an IP address problem or some other issue?