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Sonos 300 issues

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I have two Sonos 300s along with a sub and connect which I want to use for listening to my vinyl and cd collection. The rest of my Sonos products around the house work on a mesh system and are absolutely fine. Because the 300s cannot be connected to the mesh this part of the system does not work well. The music breaks off intermittently. I cannot connect the Sonos 300s direct to the router as it is in another room. I have had 2 hour long conversations with the tech team and mother has been resolved. I find myself considering selling the 300s and reverting back to play 1s instead. Seems crazy. Any ideas?

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buzz

Grand Maestro

SonosNet is very slow compared to modern networks. The wired ports are 10/100. Modern ports are mostly 1000 and faster. On a practical basis SonosNet might run in the 30Mbps range. More typically speed is in the 10Mbps (mileage always varies) range. On modern networks I regularly see 800-850Mbps speeds with the WiFi connection to the Internet.

Hardware modification of older SONOS players would be required in order to support modern WiFi and the slower older hardware probably could not keep up. Since modern WiFi is much more capable, SONOS decided that continued support of classic SonosNet is no longer a good allocation of resources. As a practical matter a given system with mixed SonosNet and WiFi only units, one may need to try both and go with the best performance.

Airgetlam

My understanding is SonosNet v2 can be compared to 802.11g, SonosNet v1 is equivalent to 802.11b, and most WiFi these days are substantially faster than either of those two ancient network standards.

Bruce

ratty

The OP's Connect is wired and the Eras are on WiFi.

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