Saddened by no ethernet in new models

I believe a generic USB-C Ethernet adapter will work, but for line-in (or combo) you’ll need the Sonos one, for obvious reasons.

​@controlav I don’t need line in so that would do for me. I suppose I’ll have to buy one and try out, I couldn’t find any other info about it.

I see now that at least Five is still coming with an ethernet port, that gives me a little hope Sonos won’t decide to make at least premium speakers wifi-only in the near future.

The Five was released in 2020. I wouldn’t expect any replacement for the Five to include an ethernet port on the device.

​@Mr. T already 5 years? wow. Anyway, that would be myopic in my opinion, since when a premium audio appliance is supposed to be better for giving less connectivity options to the user?

I get the argument for miniaturizing portable devices for which sacrificing a “big” plug like ethernet makes sense most of the times, but for fairly big speakers not meant to be moved around like the ones we’re talking about what would be the rationale behind it? Even more so that they still have at least one more wire to be plugged in (the power supply).

Personally I’ve been loyal to the Sonos brand for long (IIRC the first purchase was a Play1, could be wrong though, that was long ago...) even after the most controversials of choices but not giving me premium devices with eth would probably be the last nail in the coffin and push me to consider alternatives, an idea that I don’t like but I want to get premium quality when I pay premium money.

I haven’t tried with my 300s (no way to wire) but this one is serving me well for Linux and Windows.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CK9X9Z8?th=1

This one works in Linux but crashes Windows, often corrupting the OS and BIOS, even the HP battery “protection” for no reason I can find.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077KXY71Q/

Not happy HP sold me a laptop with no Ethernet port! 

I’d call Sonos and see if they can’t arrange a shipping option but only after trying the speakers on WiFi and making sure you need it.

Thank you ​@Stanley_4 

To answer your question, I have an ethernet plug just behind the spot the speaker is supposed to be hanged (bedroom wall), it’s pretty far from the wifi router but that’s beside the point, the house has been built with ethernet wiring all around and would be nice to be able to make use of them, having to add wifi repeaters to workaround the lack of plug is really an ugly workaround for something that’s always been working fine in the past (the One SL has eth port and it works great).

Meanwhile I found a connector to try and I can confirm it DOESN’T work with Era 100: adapter led flashes correctly but speaker led flashes blue and red, app settings don’t show anything special for the speaker but lacks the choice for wired/wifi networking.

Sonos has had to drastically trim the Linux hardware support to fit the kernel into the limited speaker memory so finding one that is supported will be challenging.

Avoid repeaters, they usually cause Sonos problems. A mesh system or additional access points appear to work well.

Digging around here:

https://en.community.sonos.com/home-theater-229129/era-300s-do-not-use-ethernet-correctly-6899843

I’m a wired freak too, but I’m afraid that we are a dying breed in consumer electronics land. Most people that I talk to exclaim “isn’t everything wireless now?”. And for most of these individuals “wireless” means Bluetooth. I find Bluetooth to be very frustrating.