For info, I have the following Sonos products:
Lounge: Playbar, 2 Play:1's as surround, 1 Sub
Hall: 1 Play:3
Guest Room: 1 Play:1
Bedroom: 1 Play:5
Prior to the Velop being installed, I had non-stop problems with using the Sonos in a purely wireless configuration. There's simply too many wireless networks in my building and despite constantly changing channels, it just wasn't reliable.
I eventually connected the Playbar into one of the wireless nodes (still before Velop) and for a time this worked 'ok' - not perfect. Having now installed the Velop and again plugged the Playbar into one of the Velop nodes (not the 'main' Velop node, a secondary node) I'm having constant issues.
Appreciate the above may be confusing. There has been a lot of change/trial-and-error trying to get Sonos to play nicely in my environment. Now that everything else wireless seems to be happy with the Velop, I'm trying to find another way to address the Sonos issues without dumping the Velop.
SO... I'm wondering if getting a Boost and connecting it directly into the Velop 'main' node would help. Is there any real difference between the Boost itself and a single speaker in a Boost configuration? Or is it simply that having a Sonos device acting as Boost plugged into a secondary mesh node is a bad thing? (For info, I can't plug a Sonos speaker into my main Velop node as my broadband, and therefore the main node, are in a cupboard.)
I'd rather not buy a Boost if it's not going to help. :)
Thanks all,
Tom
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