Digger, if you try to assign a static IP to the 502, you need to make sure it isn't in the range served up by the linksys router. for example: if the linksys dhcp server settings are to serve up 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.254, you would want to use 192.168.1.99 or something not in the range of 100-254 in that block, as you may otherwise give a static IP and the linksys happens to serve up that same IP to a dynamic host and you have a conflict. I don't understand how if you have the 502 set up for dynamic addressing, it can end up conflicting with anyone (sounds like it isn't really 100% dynamic?) Anyway, try the static IP method with my above comments.