OFDM ANI level – Red (9) to Green (0)

The matrix does not monitor WiFi connections.

A few questions..

1. How far from the router was the Boost?
2. What 2.4GHx channels were your WiFi and Sonos using?
3. What channel width does your 2.4 GHz WiFi band use? 20MHz, 40MHz?
4. Do you have any other 2.4GHz wireless systems, e.g. ZigBee?

When Sonos is in WiFi mode the Network Matrix is close to useless.

A few questions..

1. How far from the router was the Boost? 30 Feet upstairs and nowhere near noisy stuff
2. What 2.4GHx channels were your WiFi and Sonos using? Sonos 1, Router 8
3. What channel width does your 2.4 GHz WiFi band use? 20MHz, 40MHz? 20MHz
4. Do you have any other 2.4GHz wireless systems, e.g. ZigBee? Philips Hue Channel 25

You should set the router for channel 1, 6, or 11.

I thought a Router channel should be further away from Sonos, am I incorrect here? Using a WiFi Analyzer, channel 1 was low in usage so I placed Sonos there, 6 & 11 were both the same for congestion and figured channel 8 would be smack in the middle of less traffic, is this also not the right thing to do? Thanks

Channel 8 overlaps channels 6 and 11.

@bac-canada,

My personal choice would be to use Channel 1 for SonosNet and channel 6 for the routers 2.4Ghz (20Mhz) Wifi signal, because the Zigbee channel 25 has just a very slight overlap of channel 11, as shown in the below chart, that said though, I suspect channel 11 would likely be fine too.

I gotta tell you folks, this has been quite a mystery. The house is 20 years old and we moved in 5 years ago. The neighbors behind us are 100ft away, this is a wide street so other side is a good distance and these are large houses with no condo’s or jammed tight housing. I bought the Boost when we moved in because I felt it would help with the Sonos wireless devices upstairs because all other Sonos on main floor and basement is hardwired. I took a 50ft ethernet cable wired to the Router and moved the Boost all over the main floor and upstairs and it made zero difference. I tried every conceivable channel mixture and still no improvement. I even bought another Boost to see if this one was defective. It’s only my Wife and I so not a lot of WiFi use, and most everything is hard wired anyway. Only one TV on the main floor with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth off. I use the Orbi Mesh Router which is on the main floor and the satellite although upstairs, is on the opposite side from where the Boost was. I was thrilled when I recently discovered Sonos opened the 5ghz option. It just made sense to me that whatever is causing this noise at 2.4, that Sonos devices at 5ghz would be outside this. So far, and I’ve only been testing the past week, upstairs has performed flawlessly which it has never done before. I often wondered if Metal Studs which are top to basement were/are the issue. But I digress, my main question about the Sonos Matrix still being useful in Wi-Fi has been answered by you helpful contributors.

@bac-canada,

With any Home WiFi mesh system, like Orbi - it’s often worth reading this earlier Community thread too, which was started by Sonos Staff…

Some have found the information useful.

With regard to channel overlap. WiFi can deal with same channel use, but has difficulty with overlap. Think of a large conference hall where parliamentary procedure ensures that only one person speaks, then someone opens the door to an adjacent hall or outside construction site — chaos is likely.