USB 3.0 Dock Upgrade

At the beginning of the year I purchased an X1 Carbon Touch with a USB 3.0 Dock. It has taken me a long time to get it configured the way I like it. The USB 3.0 Dock is the last item.
First off this is not what I would consider to be a dock. With the dock for my T400, the lid could be closed. Unless I am missing something, the lid on the X1 Carbon has to be open for this "dock" to work.
Anyway, I was having local network issues. If I copied a large file (> 1GB) to my NAS, the Ethernet would drop out and the network would switch to one of the wi-fi connections.
Last week, I went to www.DisplayLink.com and looked at version 7.2. The comments seemed to fixed some of the issues I was having. I installed the software and the wired network went to crap. Instead of > 20 Mbps on speedtest.net, I was getting 5 Mbps when the connection was up. I had to switch to the wi-fi connection. I uninstalled all the software and installed Lenovo v10705. I am actually in good shape right now.
This brings up lots of questions:
1) I have seen many posts about getting software for the USB 3.0 dock from DisplayLink.com. Should their software be used or not?
2) The Lenovo software I am now running is ver 7.0 (I think). There is ver 7.1 on DisplayLink.com. Does anybody use this version, should I install it?
3) DisplayLink.com says their software is for the DL-3000 family. Is the USB 3.0 dock part of that family?
Thanks for any advice you can give me.

Working for DisplayLink, I would recommend v7.2, as it fixes a number of end user issues that were coming up on previous 7.x versions.
The lid can be closed, but usually the laptop will be configured to go to sleep when the lid is closed. This can be changed in the Windows settings. We have an article on how to do this here.
V7.2 includes a completely new Ethernet driver, which was designed to try and improve speed and reliability. After upgrade it might be worth removing all cables from the dock, power cycling it and replugging, just to make sure it is updated correctly.
We know of an issue that can cause a slow upload speed with some host controllers (ironically we turned on a change to try and improve Ethernet speed, but seems to have problems when used with some PC host controllers) and I wonder if this is the issue you are seeing.
We have a fix for this in our next 7.2 maintenance release which will be available in the next month or so.
Wim

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Thanks for the help. None of that fixed the problem, so I've run the tool and sent the results to DisplayLink support as you asked, with a link back to this thread. For your reference I have a Lenovo Service Request Number: 8001961163 on this problem. ( I mention this so we don't duplicate efforts).
Here's part of what I said to DisplayLink Support:
"I have all the latest drivers and updated the UEFI from Lenovo a couple of weeks ago. I restored a Windows 8.0 clone to see if the problem was present at that level, but I had the same problem, so I put Win 8.1 back. It used to work fine up until a week ago when I updated to Win 8.1, but as I said, I regressed to a Win 8.0 image and it persists there now, too.
The problem is when I restart Windows with the Dock connected, it’ll shut down normally then not reboot – it gets stuck on the Lenovo screen that asks to press Enter for the UEFI config. Same happens if I cold-boot it from power-off. Unplugging the USB3 cable and cold booting is the only way to get the PC going again.
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A quick update:
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Hi,
Which USB 3.0 dock are you refering to?
If it is this one:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0A33970/460/EB6CE8241B8A47E18EBAF06F8726DA3E
Then the latest driver which supports Windows 8.1 can be found here:
http://www.displaylink.com/support/sla.php?fileid=100
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