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Wifi MEsh or Second speaker/soundbar

  • December 16, 2025
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Hi. I am looking for some wisdom

I have a sonos ONE in the kitchen which i really like. Recently i have done an update as there was some difficulty with the sonos app finding the speaker ( i was still able to mostly find the speaker on spotify)

Since then it seems the speaker is invisible to the app and to spotify. 

My wifi set up is with the BT router in the lounge (other side of an old brick internal wall from the sonos speaker) and a BT wiFi Disc extender in the room above the kitchen to reach the loft office. 

From my reading the sonos speaker systems are disrupted by having the wifi extender with the same SSID - I have read that you cant change the name of the WiFi disc as it just repeats out the wifi signal. 

So it seems the option is to Buy a mesh network - £250 ish

but…

I was wondering...if sonos use sonosNET can i plug a sound bar into the TV and the wifi router and then the sonos ONE in the kitchen should attach to that network and not the WIFi? This would be cheaper and i would get another speaker for the TV - £170

Is my logic flawed or would this work?

Thanks

1 reply

Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • December 16, 2025

You would need a soundbar that supported Sonosnet, being phased out of newer Sonos devices, and there is no assurance the link from the proposed soundbar to the 100 would be adequate. Sonosnet is pretty much a wifi signal, tweaked a bit for Sonos use, and is using fairly old wifi standards.

I'd lean to a  modern mesh setup, maybe not the very latest version, but something wifi-6 or newer. Amazon has a base and one node mesh on sale today in the US for $99 so you should be able to find something decent under your 250 ish.

Maybe get the sound bar too during holiday sales season?