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Sonosnet + Ethernet = ???

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June 21, 2022
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Hi all,

Long time user, occasional poster. I'm toying with the idea of installing some Sonos speakers in the bar/workshop area at the bottom of my garden (roughly 15m from my house, and it seems heavily resistant to any wireless signals).

I currently have a relatively large Sonos set-up IN the house running on Sonosnet with a boost plugged into my router. I have tried just putting a speaker in the bar and hoping for the best, but alas, it is a no go.

My question is....if I were to run an ethernet cable from my router in the house to a network switch in the bar, then subsequently hardwire those speakers, would it work?? I get there's STP implications so the switch would need to support that, but beyond that is what I suggest feasible? I've done some searching on here, but nothing seems to answer my question specifically.

Thanks in advance, all!!

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Best answer by bockersjv

Mine works just that way. I went with writing all the speakers in the end mainly because it was easy work an 8 port switch. Has worked without issue since.
I also set up a wireless access point and that works fine too with the speakers running on WiFi.

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bockersjv

Local Superstar

That it’s the very switch i have. In fact 3 of them. All are connected directly to a port in the main router. In tried to not have a seitch connecting to another switch. That keeps issues away.
it’s also amazing how quickly you find other things to plug in and soon run out of ports on even the 8 port switch.

J

John B

I also use that very switch. I have never given a second’s thought to STP and to the best of my knowledge an unmanaged switch is not going to have any impact on STP within my system.

I shall have to defer to @Smilja regarding iGMP snooping, as I didn’t know what it is either, although I had heard of it. Thanks for the link.

Smilja

Me, too. :)

A broadcast storm can occur if an unmanaged switch does not support IGMP snooping.

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

ratty

IGMP snooping helps prevent unnecessary traffic floods, rather than broadcast storms per se.

I’ve never bothered with it in my small dumb switches, but then my Sonos subnet is largely populated with Sonos kit, not other stuff that’s uninterested in Sonos-originated multicasts.

Smilja

Plugging the Playbase and a IPTV streaming box into a switch that isn’t IGMP snooping-enabled is sufficient to cripple the network. 😚

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

ratty

Fine …. it sounds like it fixes an issue with the IPTV box then. 😏

Smilja

I then swapped the IPTV box for the Boost, same outcome. Then I tossed the switch into the bin.^^

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

ratty

If wiring two Sonos units caused a problem it would have been STP related.

Smilja

If wiring two Sonos units caused a problem it would have been STP related.

Yes. As for the IPTV box, my bet is on multicast flooding.

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

Ken_Griffiths

https://community.fs.com/blog/what-is-igmp-snooping.html

Just to say I found the document on IGMP snooping helpful too - thanks🙏,

I don’t have switches with IGMP Snooping (Netgear GS316 & others), but do much-prefer unmanaged switches. I didn’t realise this was an available feature on some unmanaged switches. If I do ever decide/have to upgrade my switches, I will certainly bear it in mind.

Touch-wood, I’ve not ever encountered ‘storm’ issues with the switches I have and like @ratty my network does have quite a few Sonos products dotted about.

Anyhow I have learned something new today.

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