Option to disable built-in WiFi, when Sonos is used as a single device.

Quite the heated discussion going on here. Just a note VAX, I know it's not always brought up but Sonos players can be set not to use SonosNet and instead operate on the home WiFi as a standard wireless device. The dedicated Sonos wifi (SonosNet) isn't broadcasting and the player will connect right to the home wireless. To clarify too, SonosNet is the same sort of 802.11 b/g/n that other routers would use, just with some extra mesh networking built in.

The standard setup can get messy in a house where you've got 3 separate APs and each one is broadcasting a different SSID or on a different channel, but it can certainly be managed. Grouping rooms off of multiple networks and channels can have some syncing issues at times. In general, as your network gets more complicated it tends to be better to run on SonosNet.

In this setup, the players would function much like other wireless streamers and would be fighting for bandwidth along with everything else on the network. However, you wouldn't be getting any 2.4GHz interference from the players as they aren't broadcasting anymore, they're strictly receivers. This is the setup that's known as "Standard Setup" and is the basic direction that the Sonos app talks you through to begin with. The wired setup is a secondary setup for if the first has trouble.

Finally, if you ever have trouble with a setup and need a hand, our support team is ready and able to help. Feel free to give us a call on our support line if you need a consultation or just have some questions. We're happy to help.

Finally an intelligent response, actually Ratty's response was intended to be useful too but I'm well aware that Sonos can operate on wi-fi instead of SonosNet and that even when using SonosNet it can be managed by knowing the RF channel it uses and what the nearest AP uses and changing channels as necassary to minimize interference when things are mostly stationary. My OP was just me asking operational questions regarding Sonos and my belief that if the devices can be wired they should and if they are wired there is no reason why the radios should be left on since it should provide no real operational benefit and accually pollute the RF spectrum which others interpreted as network chatter which is something entirely different but some choose to chatter up the forums without thinking or knowing facts. Again I don't need a hand setting up Sonos or configuring STP on my Cisco switches to accomodate Sonos, I have all the docs needed from the various network manufacturers I use to deal with the bridging created by multiple Sonos devices wired to a network. I also have the http command to turn off the radios and I could also open wireshark to see how they broadcast across my network but isn't anything I wanted answers to. I think I'd be better asking questions on a professional forum and ask other system integration experts what the fat and skinny is when using Sonos on enterprise class networks and have to deal with customers who buy these things and wonder why their networks crash. I think too many here are in denial or are just famialr with their own installation on a simple single AP network and aren't concerned about optimizing wi-fi and their network as long as they got Sonos working. Anyway this discussion has yielded no useful information and was basically a waste of my time. Take care!

Yes, a waste of everyone's time. At last something we can agree on.

Hello,
It's now possible to desactivate wfi if all devices are RJ45 connected ?
Thank's

Hello,
It's now possible to desactivate wfi if all devices are RJ45 connected ?
Thank's
Google for the instructions. Sonos don't officially support disabling the radio.

Yea google of disable Sonos wifi will give you the answer as top result.