Opening Local Network menu "crashes" local network

[Dotarp]

My basic setup:
Modem: Motorola SB6141
Router: D-Link DIR-655

LAN: 2 Windows machines (Server 2008 R2 and other Windows 8.1)
WAN: iPad 3 (iOS 7.1.1)

Media Server Software: PS3 Media Server, Plex Media Server (both on Windows 8.1 machine)

VLC for iOS v. 2.3.0

This is going to sound extremely strange but I have tested for many hours:

Whenever I launch VLC for iOS and choose the 'Local Network' menu option, all my LAN connected PCs completely lose network connectivity. Connectivity is restored in about 20 seconds. I can cause it again by either trying to refresh the available server list or closing and re-launching the app completely.

In the Windows System event log I get standard messages during a disconnect (browser has forced an election on the network and name resolutions timing out due to DNS servers not responding). I have checked my router logs and there are no error, warning, or informational entries logged during this time.

I have tried, with no luck, all sorts of different router settings thinking that it might help. I noticed in an older forum post the mentioning of Bonjour being used so I went ahead and installed iTunes (I know, I'm grasping at straws). No luck.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? If you need any more information, I will gladly provide it.

[Park]

This is the same issue discussed in https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=118928. Is it possible to merge the threads?

[Park]

I post this here as well, just in case.
from the other thread:

"Nothing found on http://forums.dlink.com I have not had the possibility to post this there yet, as I'm awaiting approval by D-links forum admins.
Maybe someone with an approved D-link login could start a thread over there?"

[Dotarp]

Feel free to delete this, I have replied to Park's post with my initial post's contents. I thought I had done my due diligence, my apologies for the duplicate!