All my regular home network devices get a static IP. It just keeps things like that simple and eases troubleshooting if a device goes haywire. Only guests get DHCP assigned addresses. I guess for that reason, I never seem to have trouble with my SB. My only complaint is that for a while there (seemed to be after it gotten taken over by Logitech) I dreaded doing their software updates as something always got broken or moved where I had to go find it. Seems to be much more stable now again.
I noticed the same thing, there were a lot of updates for a while now things seem to have stabilized.
