How do I force system components to use Sonosnet?

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I have multiple Sonos components, Beams, Sub, Amp, Roam, Play 3s, Ones and the whole system used to work just fine through the whole house. At some point (and I must admit I followed the crowd and blamed it on one of the updates), the two units at the furthest end of the house started playing up. Disappearing from the system, losing connection, etc. They are a pair of Ones, linked as a stereo pair. Anyway eventually I took acloser look and the whole system had switched over to WM:1, uncommanded. It had always been on Sonosnet and had been fine. The two troublesome units are borderline outside the wifi range for the house. My Amp was the primary unit and was still wired to the router, so I switched it to wired but that hasn't fixed it. It shows WM:0 in the system but everything else is still WM:1 and the problem persists (the rest of the system is fine, but it is well within range of the router). I can’t find a way to switch the rest of the system over to Sonosnet again. Is there a quick and easy fix? Thanks in advance!

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Pools-3015Answer

Prodigy I

I have multiple Sonos components, Beams, Sub, Amp, Roam, Play 3s, Ones and the whole system used to work just fine through the whole house. At some point (and I must admit I followed the crowd and blamed it on one of the updates), the two units at the furthest end of the house started playing up. Disappearing from the system, losing connection, etc. They are a pair of Ones, linked as a stereo pair. Anyway eventually I took acloser look and the whole system had switched over to WM:1, uncommanded. It had always been on Sonosnet and had been fine. The two troublesome units are borderline outside the wifi range for the house. My Amp was the primary unit and was still wired to the router, so I switched it to wired but that hasn't fixed it. It shows WM:0 in the system but everything else is still WM:1 and the problem persists (the rest of the system is fine, but it is well within range of the router). I can’t find a way to switch the rest of the system over to Sonosnet again. Is there a quick and easy fix? Thanks in advance!

If the paired ones are just outside your WIFI signal range, they are probably outside the range of Sonosnet as well. You will either have to bring them closer to the main device and WIFI, or run ethernet to that location, and use a router in Ap mode to extend your WIFI as well as have ethernet ports to plug in one of the Ones to your network. That speaker will also extend Sonosnet.

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furacaopr

Prodigy III

If you have disabled the WiFi on your Amp, try enabling it back. The wording is misleading, as this setting in reality disables the Amp's radio, which is needed to create SonosNet.

Airgetlam

And not all of those listed speakers can connect to a SonosNet signal. The Roam, in particular, requires your WiFi, it has no method to connect to SonosNet.

Bruce

Pools-3015Answer

Prodigy I

I have multiple Sonos components, Beams, Sub, Amp, Roam, Play 3s, Ones and the whole system used to work just fine through the whole house. At some point (and I must admit I followed the crowd and blamed it on one of the updates), the two units at the furthest end of the house started playing up. Disappearing from the system, losing connection, etc. They are a pair of Ones, linked as a stereo pair. Anyway eventually I took acloser look and the whole system had switched over to WM:1, uncommanded. It had always been on Sonosnet and had been fine. The two troublesome units are borderline outside the wifi range for the house. My Amp was the primary unit and was still wired to the router, so I switched it to wired but that hasn't fixed it. It shows WM:0 in the system but everything else is still WM:1 and the problem persists (the rest of the system is fine, but it is well within range of the router). I can’t find a way to switch the rest of the system over to Sonosnet again. Is there a quick and easy fix? Thanks in advance!

If the paired ones are just outside your WIFI signal range, they are probably outside the range of Sonosnet as well. You will either have to bring them closer to the main device and WIFI, or run ethernet to that location, and use a router in Ap mode to extend your WIFI as well as have ethernet ports to plug in one of the Ones to your network. That speaker will also extend Sonosnet.

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tmuserAuthor

Avid Contributor I

If you have disabled the WiFi on your Amp, try enabling it back. The wording is misleading, as this setting in reality disables the Amp's radio, which is needed to create SonosNet.

Thanks, I’ll give that a try. (I was advised to switch off radio because another problem that had arisen was that the whole system stopped ‘seeing’ my NAS, which is on the same router. Previously worked without issue for >5 years.)

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tmuserAuthor

Avid Contributor I

I have multiple Sonos components, Beams, Sub, Amp, Roam, Play 3s, Ones and the whole system used to work just fine through the whole house. At some point (and I must admit I followed the crowd and blamed it on one of the updates), the two units at the furthest end of the house started playing up. Disappearing from the system, losing connection, etc. They are a pair of Ones, linked as a stereo pair. Anyway eventually I took acloser look and the whole system had switched over to WM:1, uncommanded. It had always been on Sonosnet and had been fine. The two troublesome units are borderline outside the wifi range for the house. My Amp was the primary unit and was still wired to the router, so I switched it to wired but that hasn't fixed it. It shows WM:0 in the system but everything else is still WM:1 and the problem persists (the rest of the system is fine, but it is well within range of the router). I can’t find a way to switch the rest of the system over to Sonosnet again. Is there a quick and easy fix? Thanks in advance!

If the paired ones are just outside your WIFI signal range, they are probably outside the range of Sonosnet as well. You will either have to bring them closer to the main device and WIFI, or run ethernet to that location, and use a router in Ap mode to extend your WIFI as well as have ethernet ports to plug in one of the Ones to your network. That speaker will also extend Sonosnet.

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, there is a ‘chain’ of units, each close enough to each other for a MESH network to establish. The distant paired ones used to work just fine, 100% reliably before the system switched itself over to WiFi!

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tmuserAuthor

Avid Contributor I

And not all of those listed speakers can connect to a SonosNet signal. The Roam, in particular, requires your WiFi, it has no method to connect to SonosNet.

Yes, thanks for that. I did know this but thought I’d mention the Roam for completeness!

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