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SONOS and STARLINK Mesh Challenges - Anyone figure it out?

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Hi there, I’ve seen a thread that covers off my challenge - but it was started years ago, and regardless, never seems to have been resolved. Given the adoption of Starlink as an ISP, it might be time to revisit.

SITUATION: I’m using the Starlink Mesh - 2 nodes - router and mesh (yes I’ve seen some challenges using Starlink with SONOS, but I’ve run into no problem- and generally it works ‘great’), but when I try to tie SONOS units together ‘play everywhere’ or attempt to join in units in other parts of the house - being serviced but the mesh node - I'm presented with the “Wireless range extender” error. Those units connected to the mesh node do not play.

I live in a large house, with plaster and lathe walls, and NO consumer router can provide enough coverage - hence the mesh. I did previously use the Google Mesh - but with the change in ISP, would prefer just to use the OEM router and mesh system.

QUESTION: Does anyone know if there’s a workaround/solution to this (other than using cables to all units - why would I buy SONOS if I had to do that)?

I’d take any suggestions - and if I need to buy a new Mesh - irks me, as it’s silly, but I will.

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kenalberto

Lyricist I

Has anybody found a solution for this besides using a Starlink Ethernet adapter to a different brand of mesh network? I swear that when I first got Starlink mesh, all of my Sonos stuff worked for like 6 months. But, since one of the two systems (being Sonos or Starlink) ran some update, it’s been unusable. I feel like if there were a way to lock each Sonos product to a particular Starlink mesh node, it might be stable, but as it sits right now, I really can’t group Sonos units together.

Back in the day, I had a network extender and I replaced that with a mesh network at the specific recommendation of Sonos just to make their products work more smoothly. That worked for a while, even when I updated to a Starlink mesh network, but only for a few months.

Since Sonos won’t support my system (because it’s Starlink) and Starlink doesn’t have tech support, I really don’t know what else to do. Again, I swear all this hardware worked together for months, so I’m hoping there’s some way to configure it to do that again.

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Timberdooson

Lyricist III

It’s been a few months and I’ve run the boost and a separate speaker or “player” off the Starlink router with an ether net cord.
I’m not sure if the boost works better or a speaker. Either way there were still constant issues. Some speakers would play some wouldn’t. Selecting speakers in the app would say not in range then start playing without selecting them to. I’m not sure what to do now. The whole point is to be able to play music through the whole house not just one room.

I think a separate router is my next move.

Sometimes everything works flawlessly other times I wanna throw it in the yard. My wife has pretty much given up on the system through wireless and just uses the Bluetooth on the Move speaker or the Alexa.

RadioActiveLamb

Lyricist I

I’m running into this problem that you are all describing. My configuration has the ethernet adapter near the router where I run it into a switch for all the devices on my desk. I don’t have it running to any Sonos device, since there aren’t any near the router connected to Dishy. I have another Starlink router in “mesh” mode across the house. As a result, I cannot group these speakers together, even though there’s a single DHCP scope. As mentioned by someone earlier, this configuration used to work great until something got updated. Sonos/app/Starlink - I don’t know what. I still have my old Google Wifi mesh system, which doesn’t exhibit this problem. Question for those of you who have set this up - if I add the Google Wifi with a different SSID just for Sonos speakers, is there any trouble controlling these speakers from the Starlink SSID? I’m concerned with the subnets not having any connectivity with each other, but both having Internet access.

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Ster1

Lyricist I

The Starlink mesh nodes aren't the best. I'm using eeros and far fewer issues. The odd glitch during setup, but otherwise have been a really stable reliable product They have ethernet ports so you can have a wired backhaul.

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