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Prodigy I
May 20, 2016
Question

Will Sonos work with Luma wifi?

Luma wifi is about to be released and looks like a great product. Can Sonos and Luma both create mesh networks that work together or will there be interference? I assume they will work, right?! A wifi mesh will be on a different frequency than the Sonos mesh, right? Luma looks like the solution many of us could use if it works as effectively as Sonos does with its own mesh. Opinions?
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    T00LF00LAuthor
    Prodigy I
    May 21, 2016
    Well that's partly my point, I buy three for $299, decide I need another one and then have to shell out $199 for it? Crazy...
    Well yes that's getting pricey, but they claim 3 should cover a typical home and really I feel just 2 will probably do it for me.
    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecil.
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    Prodigy I
    May 21, 2016
    @ratty: So does that mean Sonos wouldn't work with an Eero setup? The products are similar but Luma is more affordable and offers other security features.
    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecil.
    ratty
    May 21, 2016
    @ratty: So does that mean Sonos wouldn't work with an Eero setup?
    It should work, and others report as much.

    Since eero appears to use a fixed 40MHz channel, my suggestion to users with SonosNet based systems has been to move SonosNet to channel 11.
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    Prodigy I
    May 21, 2016
    Actually I meant to type 'would'.. damn auto correct. I found this info about the Luma:
    "Luma works on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies and uses new 802.11ac Wave 2 technology. Each device sports 2GB ethernet ports for WAN and LAN, as well as one USB 2 port"
    It seems it should to me too, i mean, it's still just wifi and Sonos is meant to coexist with wifi. I'm gonna go ahead and order this i think, thanks for the input!
    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecil.
    ratty
    May 21, 2016
    Sonos is meant to coexist with wifi.
    Yes, but some WiFis are greedy, perhaps the worst being the late and unlamented 'Super G'.

    Any 40MHz width channel has the potential to pretty much monopolise the 2.4GHz band. However if its primary is on channel 1 or 11 there is space for SonosNet to co-exist.
    Collaborator II
    May 21, 2016
    Eero is glorified repeater snake oil, and I would lay odds that this Luma stuff is, too. They mesh on the same radio channel as they service clients (if they really had the extra radios to do proper meshing, they'd be a lot more expensive).

    Save your money and buy some Ubiquiti APs instead and hard-wire them so they are each on a separate radio channel. You know, the way you're supposed to expand coverage without creating tons of radio interference...
    ratty
    May 21, 2016
    each eero has two radios
    Like a number of such devices they're evidently capable of servicing clients on one band and back-hauling on another.
    Collaborator II
    May 21, 2016
    Like a number of such devices they're evidently capable of servicing clients on one band and back-hauling on another.
    Marketing snakeoil. They may hop bands for backhaul, but they still reuse the same channel for client devices as they do for the backhaul. in fact, they use the same fixed radio channels on ALL Eeros. So the APs themselves are creating radio interference with each other. Proper radio cell designs use different, non-overlapping radio channels.
    ratty
    May 21, 2016
    I'm not here to defend eero, but an extender using different bands for clients and for backhaul is standard practice. It's a bridge and an AP back to back.
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    Prodigy I
    May 22, 2016
    Hey guys, update for this thread..
    I found the official answer on Amazon: YES! It will work!
    I dug into the questions and someone asked the same and got a response from Luma.
    They also gave props to Sonos!!
    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecil.