Sonos on Meraki wireless

Probably, all you would need to do is put all three on the same channel as long as the other Sonos restrictions are being met.

I don’t know Meraki but I have Ubiquity APs and dialing back their capabilities to meet the Sonos restrictions just didn’t make sense to me so I moved to Boost mode with several Sonos wired and reset my APs to leave a channel clear for my Sonos.

Thanks Stanley, How many Ubiquity AP’s do you have in the house?  If you only have 2 I can see where it would be easy to reserve a channel for SonosNet.

The number of 2.4 GHz APs here has varied from 1 to 3 over the years, today I’m down to just one for my 2.4 GHz use, connecting to an older printer.

If you don’t reserve a channel for Sonos you’ll be competing between the AP and the SonosNet mesh for bandwidth. If you could put your most distant and lowest traffic AP on the SonosNet channel you’d have the lowest level of conflict.

With only 3 non-conflicting channels 2.4 GHZ has never really worked well for multi-AP setups unless you can lay them out in a straight line to keep the interference down. Maybe if you fool with the power levels you can get something working using just two channels?

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/WiFi_Basics_and_Best_Practices/Channel_Planning_Best_Practices

Don’t forget, having all APs on the same channel is a Sonos requirement for Standard Mode (WiFI) use, you can only put your APs on different channels in Boost Mode. So in Boost you at lest get to use at least two AP channels.

Ok thanks. I’m still scratching my head that Sonos advocates for multiple AP’s on the same channel.. completely against WiFi best practices. I’ll investigate enabling Boost mode

I think what you are calling Boost mode is the same as SonosNet correct? Having one speaker wired? That’s how I am running now. I’m not interested in adding the Boost hardware AP from Sonos.

If I have 3 wired speakers and the rest unwired, will each of the unwired have to associate with the same wired speaker, or whichever wired speaker Is closest?

For optimal group performance Sonos units communicate directly peer-to-peer, even in WiFi mode. This can’t happen if units are tuned to APs on different channels.

Thanks ratty, I’m still trying to optimize my Sonos network, tweaking STP now, you had given me a note a year ago about paying attention to 802.1D and 802.1W.  My Meraki switch runs RSTP, but I can manually disable RSTP per port, so I am doing that for all ports wired to Sonos devices and will see how that reacts.  Also to note I have set the bridge priority of the Meraki switch to 4096.

You should only ever have one Sonos device wired to network, either the Boost or one of the speakers or other devices (Amp, Port, etc.)   That single device will provide internet to the entire system over the SonosNet mesh.   Having multiple Sonos devices wired to network WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS!

Each Sonos device will still get a unique IP and will be visible as unique devices on your network. 

P.S.  I have 8 Sonos devices in my home, with a single one wired to my network.  I also have an Eero Pro mesh system in my home with multiple access points.  Everything is setup with default/vanilla configuration.  Everything works great and my Sonos system hasn’t had a “drop” in the year since I’ve set it up.

This is not correct based on info I have received from other users.. I have a large house and some speakers can’t reach the others via wireless, so I need more than one device wired.