Multiple Boosts?

tomgru,

Noise floor above the mid -80's can be troublesome. (-80 is more noise than -100) In this respect the Great Room closet is not a great location. I doubt that you will see any wireless unit's noise floor above -70 because the units really can't communicate in that environment.

The Great Room player is struggling. ratty's suggestion to wire the Great Room player and turn OFF its radio will probably help things along. Also, experiment with physically moving BOOST. Either move it within the closet or move it to a wired port in another location. Note that the Network Matrix is a snapshot, you'll need to refresh the page after each adjustment.

I'm a fan of wiring as many SONOS units as possible. If you wire multiple SONOS units and are using UBIQUTI network switches, make sure that the switches are set for STP. Don't use RSTP.

thanks everyone... so helpful. i'll keep messing around a bit and report back this weekend!

working on this today. will try suggestions and report back. one question...

what is the "undefined"? I have two now in my matrix?

My guess is they are old Bridges that I didn't remove correctly. is there a way to go back and fix that?

"Undefined" headings can be due to devices being offline, devices having disabled radios, or the presence of 5GHz connections to a home theatre speaker.

If the MAC addresses are +1 with respect to your Bridges' serial numbers then you have your answer.

Phantom entries for offline devices will remain until the system has been restarted, either by power-cycling or as a result of a firmware update.

ok... not sure how this panning out. here's what I've done per advice above.

• Main floor Boost moved out of closet (where interference was greatest) and is wired into dumb switch in office
• Downstairs Boost wired into Ubiquiti switch (8). STP set, with priority 8192
• Great room wired to ubiquiti switch (8) with STP and priority 8192.
• Main deck (downstairs near boost) wired to ubiquiti switch (8) with STP and priority 8192.
• (FYI if it matters, main ubiquiti switch (16) set to STP priority 4096

On thing on the wifi... when I tried to turn if off, I get an error saying to make sure it's connected to a router (it is). so on the Main deck/great room, it wouldn't let me turn if off. thoughts here?

this does not look very good :-)

Great Room's radio is now off.

Ambient RF noise still accounts for the amber/red in the left column. If the system's behaving okay then ignore it, otherwise you'd need to isolate what's causing the interference, by going round turning other gear off until you can find the culprit. Note that there's a minute or two lag before the system responds to the removal of a noise source.

Great Room's radio is now off.

Ambient RF noise still accounts for the amber/red in the left column. If the system's behaving okay then ignore it, otherwise you'd need to isolate what's causing the interference, by going round turning other gear off until you can find the culprit. Note that there's a minute or two lag before the system responds to the removal of a noise source.
ah... so the blank row/column is a good thing?
Wonder why I can't turn wifi off for main deck? it is also plugged into lan port on switch.

The boost downstairs is very close to the main deck.. not sure it's doing anything.... how would I know?

Thanks again for all the help here Ratty. Much appreciated!

A blank row/column means the radio is disabled.

It's not obvious why Main Deck refuses to disable its radio. Its connecting wirelessly to Master Bedroom, so presumably the latter's wireless. That shouldn't matter though. Sometimes the system is a bit fussy about disabling the radio if the device is hung off a peripheral switch. Try temporarily wiring Main Deck to the same switch as either of the Boosts.

As for Boost Downstairs it isn't actually doing anything useful. Look along its row. None of the cells are coloured: it has no wireless connections.

Signal strengths are now looking very good. If you're not experiencing any problems you can ignore the colours in the left column. The wireless chipsets are basically just doing their job of rejecting noise.