SONOS V MESH WIFI

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June 7, 2024
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Hi.

love the product, cannot fault the quality of sound, at all.

BIG problem. New app. SONOS, WTF?

not compatible with mesh networks at all. I had sky Wi-Fi before, slight drag issues, but nothing dramatic. Eero mesh? Doesn’t like it at all.

why am I wasting my words? You might actually care for consumers that may consume you, if you do not fix it?

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Best answer by G0atHax0r

If you’re setting up a new network, or trying to migrate your speakers to a mesh network… like @Antifon said above, you may be out of luck, because the current app is completely (for the most part) non-functional. I couldn’t imagine going through a speaker setup process. But if you’re daring, and willing to sacrifice a speaker, please see how it works… if it works. I’m just putting out a “vote of no confidence” out there with the current state of things. Again, if I can help provide suggestions, I will… but I’m leaving things status quo on the Google Nest network on my end until I gain more trust and confidence in this damn app.

G0atHax0r

Enthusiast II

Hi.

love the product, cannot fault the quality of sound, at all.

BIG problem. New app. SONOS, WTF?

not compatible with mesh networks at all. I had sky Wi-Fi before, slight drag issues, but nothing dramatic. Eero mesh? Doesn’t like it at all.

why am I wasting my words? You might actually care for consumers that may consume you, if you do not fix it?

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I have been using 6 different Sonos speakers on a 4-node Google Nest Wi-Fi Pro mesh network without issue for several years now. It does work. Maybe not with Eero or “Sky Wi-Fi” (never heard of this)… but you would think you’d see more alarm bells in forums like these pertaining to network connectivity issues among mesh network implementations.

Mark DAuthor

Contributor I

US or UK?

G0atHax0r

Enthusiast II

US or UK?

US

A

Antifon

Prodigy III

I don’t think the new app has had any effect at all on mesh compatibility. AFAIK, Sonos units tend not to like network extenders, but most mesh systems seem to be OK. I’m using a 3-node mesh and it was working OK with 16.1, and I could see the whole network OK when the app auto-upgraded to the first of the 80 releases. I haven’t done any extensive testing with the latest release because I rolled all of my controllers back to 16.1, due to numerous other problem, but I don’t think that mesh connectivity was one of them.

Having said that, if you’re trying to set up a new mesh network, you’re probably out of luck, as I don’t think the first release of the new app lets you change any of the wifi settings manually (crazy, ridiculous, unbelievable, but true).

G0atHax0rAnswer

Enthusiast II

If you’re setting up a new network, or trying to migrate your speakers to a mesh network… like @Antifon said above, you may be out of luck, because the current app is completely (for the most part) non-functional. I couldn’t imagine going through a speaker setup process. But if you’re daring, and willing to sacrifice a speaker, please see how it works… if it works. I’m just putting out a “vote of no confidence” out there with the current state of things. Again, if I can help provide suggestions, I will… but I’m leaving things status quo on the Google Nest network on my end until I gain more trust and confidence in this damn app.

R

Rhonny

Prodigy III

Been using TP-Link Deco M5 3-node wifi mesh with various Sonos speakers attached by wifi to different nodes, for a few years. Never had an issue with Sonos at any point, and the new app has not affected anything.

Nodes are in AP mode, not router mode, with the router itself in charge of DHCP allocation, but with router wifi switched off. The only wifi is delivered by the mesh nodes.

And if it matters, I’m in the UK.