I am about to build a garden room remote from my main house. I will run 2 Cat6 cables from the house router to the room (as a contingency) but am wondering if I could connect one directly to my new Sonos amp while using the second cable to connect directly to a wireless access point to establish my wi-fi. Any downsides to this and any recommendations for a new access point would be appreciated. I assume if one of the Cat6 cables fail in the future that I could use a simple ethernet switch upstream of both the access point and Sonos Amp?
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Best answer by ratty
Failure of one trunk cable would simply mean plugging in the backup cable instead.
As for local switching arrangements, a small dumb switch would be cleaner. However you could always daisy-chain the connection to the AP through the Amp as suggested. The downsides to the daisy-chain are that the AP would be restricted to 100Mbps, and during Sonos system updates the connection to the AP would be interrupted for a short while.
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Failure of one trunk cable would simply mean plugging in the backup cable instead.
As for local switching arrangements, a small dumb switch would be cleaner. However you could always daisy-chain the connection to the AP through the Amp as suggested. The downsides to the daisy-chain are that the AP would be restricted to 100Mbps, and during Sonos system updates the connection to the AP would be interrupted for a short while.
If lightning strikes are common in your neighborhood, install lightning protection on those CAT-6’s.
I’d stick with an AP that matches the one you have now, keeping things simple is almost always good.
If you want a full featured AP the Ubiquity line are great. You can use them with a smart controller or an app.
I dislike daisy chaining but it does work.
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