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Sonos Bandwidth Usage When Not In Use

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February 5, 2021
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I see Sonos community keep closing this topic and brushing it off like it’s normal.

Sonos idle without streaming any content is using between 89kbs and 500kbs throughout the day and night.

Why is it using this constant data. Add this up and at average usage and that’s 1GB per hour 24GB every 24 hours 720GB a month… Idel!

There’s either some redundant bandwidth stealing, CPU usage or bitcoin mining going on with these devices we should be aware of.

Thankfully I’ve got a network I can track and set usage routines with, so I’ve cut off this massive data drain from my network when not it use.

The more I learn about Sonos and the more I get to use their controlling, overbearing software, the less I like them. With smarter phones, networks and speakers which just do great music, without controlling networks and forcing you to use buggy apps and hardware, hopefully Sonos will be the “midi disc” of their time with a cult following of nerds who’ll always love them, but not because they made music any better!

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Ken_Griffiths

Yep is external, am monitoring this via my ISP. I’ve explained this further up the thread.

Unless you can 100% rule it out because your a developer for Sonos then who knows what they’re using redundant CPU capacity for, was more a provoking statement than a conclusion.

Our "Breakfast Bar R” (a Sonos One gen2) speaker has been monitored since I posted above and it’s upload/download data is still far less than than anything you mention - unless Sonos are somehow also conspiring with our router manufacturer too, which I very much doubt?

The router monitors all our connected network devices, showing both upload/download data, on a per device basis, based on MAC Address ...and that speaker is showing as uploading 8.34mb and downloading 3.4mb of data within the past 24 hours. Compare that to my earlier printout attached to my other post above some 16 hours ago.

So my thoughts are you are ‘likely’ measuring something incorrectly here or something else is awry with your particular setup. I don’t believe our router, is going to be that far out on its results and all the inactive Sonos devices are showing similar upload/download results.

Here is the print-out attached relating to that speaker.