@Carl In thinking about this further, would it help to disable DHCP on the router all together; forcing each of the devices to be manually set? I know this would become a bit of a nightmare for me,...

Carl, Thank-you so much for replying. Please understand my comments were not meant to be ugly. I know you guys have hundreds of threads out there and believe me, TPLink isn't the only forum I poised...

@Carl Your 4th bullet point above is a serious question I've been struggling with. I may not be asking it the right way or may have the configuration improperly set for my Smart Home application, but...

@W8WCA For what its worth folks, I was having a similar issue to those voiced before this reply. One of the variables I don't see above (likely I overlooked it) is I use this router in my home for...