I’m trying to find a dock with 100W PD (as more doesn’t seem to exist for now), to connect 2 FullHD displays, 1G Ethernet, audio, and a couple of USB-A devices to my Framework 16 running Ubuntu 24.04. I bought the Icy Box IB-DK2880-C41, as it was mentioned to work, but for me it is very unstable to unusable.
Can someone recommend a working dock?
I’m pretty happy with the Plugable TBT4-UD5; normally I only have a single 4K display connected, but I have had dual displays connected without an issue. It suffers from the same problem as all other docks, you have to connect it to a non-TB4 port on the FW16 for the displays to work, so I use the middle port on the left side.
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Hello everyone, I have a HP g5 essential dock and I have been experiencing something annoying for a long time. When I plug in the dock via USB-C on the right side it works for a while. And then at some point when I boot, the dock is no longer recognised on the right side. Then it will work on the left side for a bit. And then it switches sides and the left side doesn’t work anymore. How can I fix this?
Thanks for that piece of information, which I somehow missed before. It’s much more stable now.
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I’m thinking of getting the lexar professional workflow dock.
It has swappable modules that use USB-C. I think adapters for framework modules could be made with a 3d printer.
This is ridiculous clunky and expensive.
Hello, I have the same issue… no fix.
Lexar has always made crap products. You think this device of theirs will be an exception?
@Matthew_Brooks @Rainer_Zufall did you do anything special to get the Anker 778 Thunderbolt docking station to work?
Brand new, plugged into Framework 16 (NixOS/KDE) and the light is only green, not blue; the laptop has the “connected but still discharging” message and unlike sometimes when it is actually very slowly charging or holding steady, it really was discharging.
And no monitors, no keyboard and mouse, not a single peripheral plugged into the dock is working. 
UPDATE: Plugging the dock into the USB-C port at the LEFT-hand back of the laptop, instead of the right-hand back (even though both of those are supposed to be the “power” USB-C slots per Framework) made the dock work.
So that’s a Framework problem not an Anker problem?
Unfortunately (but no longer tragically), the dock is only working with one monitor. Trying to have two external monitors plus the laptop screen going, and i have one monitor that has an HDMI cable and another that has a DisplayPort cable. The HDMI cable works through the dock, the DisplayPort does not work through the dock— it does work when plugged into the Framework DisplayPort (so i have my laptop screen, one monitor through the dock, and one monitor through the displayport module all working at once). (The dock has two DisplayPorts and one HDMI, so if the DisplayPorts don’t work at all, that is a real drag; if they both will work when HDMI is not plugged in i can buy another DisplayPort cable and live with that.)
Has anyone used the Caldigit TS4 with the Framework 16? @Matthijs_Kooijman made a great writeup on it here USB-C/Thunderbolt Dock Megathread - #204 by Matthijs_Kooijman but the date of the post makes me think it was on a Framework 13. It’s on the top of my list for dock purchase right now, but I’d like to know if anyone has experience on the 16 with it, or if there’s a better recommendation.
@mlncn I’ve had this issue with both docks and the basic power supply sometimes. I fixed it by rebooting to the EFI and hit the ‘disconnect battery’ option, then shut down. Then unplug and replug the USB power connector. Somehow the power inputs get stuck in a mode where they won’t accept power, and disconnecting the battery will force the managing hardware to fully reset.
Correct, my writeup was about a Framework 13 intel 11th gen (the only one that was available when I wrote that). I am now using the same dock with a Framework 13 Ultra 1, which also works (have not thoroughly tested, but most things work in daily practice, except that sometimes I need to replug it when it is plugged in at boot because otherwise the display output does not work). But it seems that the Framework 16 has an AMD CPU, so I guess none of this is any help to you :‐)
I’ve been having shenanigans with my WD22TB4 dock and the rear left USB4 port - sometimes the port will just die and stop working (alongside the USB4 port on the other side) until a reboot. The middle USB 3.2 ports work fine with the dock, with caveats:
- Sometimes, if the laptop is off or suspended, connecting the dock goes into some sort of PD loop where it connects and disconnects every second - you can see this on the little LED on the laptop itself as well as the LED on the USB-C connector on the thunderbolt cable. Fixes itself once I turn the laptop on or wake it up from sleep
- I need to drop refresh rate from 144Hz to 120Hz on one of the external monitors, likely a USB 3.2 bandwidth issue
I went through a whole thing with framework support that ended with a new motherboard being sent out but it shows the same problems as the original motherboard. I have two of these docks, the other being my wife’s, bought from different places at different times and the issue happens with both, so it’s not specifically a dock problem. The docks work fine on other laptops (Macbook pro and Dell XPS).
I have noticed the same behavior on the left port (Port 1 from the graphs).
I then tend to actually just plug it to the right side (Port 4) and it works again.
It is way more stable when simply using port 2 to be honest. Maybe I’ll switch over there indefinitely now 
Ditto with the most recent WD22TB4 firmware and FW16 driver updates.
Hey - for whoever it might be useful. I had screen disconnection issues when on a full power on all sorts of hubs, eventually used a Thuderbolt cable instead of USB4 one (I tried many USB cables before), and everything is perfectly stable. It was a cable issue all along. I’ve read about it an people are saying that Thunderbolt cables are better marked and certified and thus generally more reliable and higher quality. I wasn’t even aware thundrebolt cables are a thing, and thought thunderbolt is just a protocol and all cables are usb cables. Huh.
My setup now is: 12th Gen FW13, Thunderbolt cable, Anker 553 USB C Docking Station, DVI gong to the screen, [GIGABYTE M27U Advanced (SA). I plug one cable to the laptop everything works. I push a button and it switches everything to my desktop. Sweet.
I am also having issues with the WD22TB4 on recent firmware updates. All my monitors work but it only supplies just enough power to keep the system at whatever it is at currently. Heres to hoping a firmware update or something can fix it I guess.
I have the same, and no problems.
You applied the latest updates to it?
Me thinks we should have a breakout thread for the Dell Thunderbolt dock series (WD19/WD22)
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