We use Sonos to deliver music in a course that we teach. The course involves us visiting small hospitals and I have to get Sonos working, sometimes, over larger distances - and I am looking for advice around this rather than continuing with the repeated pain of my trial and error!
We set up a mesh wifi network - the router is plugged into a working ethernet socket and this gives us internet access for some other purposes that we have.
I usually plug a Play1 or a Boost into the router and then the other 6 Sonos speakers are placed in rooms - that can be far apart.
I do not plug the Play1 or Boost into the hospital ethernet directly because I think they tend to block it (hospitals don’t usually want folks playing music day in , day out via their networks)
The problem i have is that the distant speakers are sometimes too far - I can usually ‘see’ them in the app but playing music fails because of network speed.
So….options? I have tried using a couple of other Boosts in the hope that they act like wireless repeaters (not ethernet connection). I am not sure that this works - I guess it might depend on whether Sonos is using its own network, or the mesh system that we set up.
I have thought of plugging a boost into a speaker that is within range - hoping that the Boost will push the signal further than the speaker.
I also wonder if if Sonos is using its’ own network, and that if my mesh network is strong...then perhaps telling sonos to use the mesh might work better...but I am not sure how to ensure that it does this.
Sorry for the long question!
I should add that we have been shipping 2 Sonos systems around, each about 12 times a year, setting them up, packing and re-shipping them etc since 2010….and not one piece of them has failed - solid product!
Thanks all for any advice.
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