Contributor I

Sonos keeps dropping out and losing connection

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
August 4, 2018
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I have 2 play 1 speakers. They run from a sonos bridge which is wired into my Orange live box via ethernet cable.
I also have another access point in another room which is hardwired back to the bridge. I use Sonos mainly for my own library stored on an Apple Mac Pro.
The whole set up is absolutely hopeless. Works fine during daytime but in the evening constantly drops out for up to an hour, fades comes back. I live in an old stone house with a fairly low download speed of around 5 mgb per second but I would not think the download speeds should make any difference as I play from my own library. I would appreciate any ideas on how to solve this issue.

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jhcovert

Contributor I

@Jeff S - that is incredibly helpful!!! Thank you.

This way as I move equipment around the space I should be able to see in near real time if there’s any impact to the signal level and noise floor.

I’ll keep you posted. Thanks again.

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mayyrh

Lyricist III

Intermittently losing connection to Sonos network, even when internet connectivity is stable.

Diagnostic # 130208596

Please, advise, this has been going on for awhile!

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Anonymous

@mayyrh Thank you for reaching out to us in the Sonos Community. I understand you are mentioning that you lose connection with your Sonos system. Can you be more specific to how you are being affected, meaning is this with one room name or your whole system, as well as is this with one music service or happening with multiple sources? What troubleshooting steps have you tried already and what happened when you tried steps listed in this thread? We can see from your supplied diagnostic report number that your are using at least two network routers with a Zone Bridge wired into the network with you likely being affected by wireless interference.

We will need your full network topology with the model names and numbers of the products that are wired or wirelessly connected on your network for any modem, router(s), extenders, access points or switches (managed or unmanaged). After you gather that information I would suggest that you make one of your Play:5 units or C:Amps as the Ethernet wired product to the router, then power off the Zone Bridge. Next, please power re-boot off your wifi equipment for 30 seconds with no lights on it, meaning no battery backup, then power it back up. While this equipment is powering back on then power re-boot off your Sonos units for the same time with no lights and plug them back in to power, no button pressing is needed. You can leave your bridge powered off and use Sonosnet from your wired Play:5 or C:Amp. While we are powering back on then re-boot the device(s) running the Sonos app. When reconnected then test the music playback for 30+ minutes and let us know the testing results along with an updated diagnostic report number here.

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cloudcontroller

Lyricist I

Same issue- YT Music loses connection on mostly wired network (2 of the 3 devices are connected via ethernet- neither can stream). I use a Google Wifi router and netgear switches. Confirmation number for diagnostic info is 1625377192

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