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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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craigski

Local Superstar

Re PoE Adapters, STP and Sonos, if you are in UK and add Sky to the mix this maybe worth a read:

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Q/SkyQ-and-Sonos-interfering-with-each-other/td-p/3589818

ratty

Re PoE Adapters, STP and Sonos, if you are in UK and add Sky this maybe worth a read:

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Q/SkyQ-and-Sonos-interfering-with-each-other/td-p/3589818

Read the Sky Q section of:

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craigski

Local Superstar

The sky article describes issue with 100Mbs connections. I actually came across it when checking network matrix was healthy after adding another wired Sonos device, and noticed the STP root bridge was not as expected turned out from the mac address it was a SkyQ box installed a few months back even though WiFi was disabled on SkyQ.

ratty

The root bridge is a network entity that’s independent of Ethernet, WiFi, SonosNet, etc. It’s the device with the lowest value of bridge priority; if multiple devices have the same lowest priority it’s the device with the lowest value of MAC address. It’s not unusual for routers or other infrastructure items to have a lower bridge priority value (and hence a better chance of being root) than Sonos’ default configuration. This is generally a Good Thing, as the root should usually reside in the core of the local network.

Vegeta_UKAuthor

Avid Contributor I

This has all been very helpful, thankyou. One final question, will hardwired speakers still transmit the Sonosnet mesh (in effect acting as extenders) or does the wireless transmission switch off when connected to ethernet? I feel like I should know the answer to this already, but you know when you second guess yourself? Yeah, that!

Cheers in advance (again)

Playbar // Beam (G1) // Sub (G2) // 9 x Play:1 // 1 x One // 2 x Play:3 // 1 x Play:5 (G2) // Boost x 3 // Roam x 1//Ray x 1

buzz

Grand Maestro

Unless you individually switch a SONOS radio OFF, it will be active with or without an Ethernet connection. If the radios automatically switch OFF when an Ethernet connection is established, there would be no SonosNet wireless mesh and all of the units would need to be wired or you would need to use WiFi. Attempting to have some units use SonosNet and some units use WiFi does not usually work well. (except for ROAM and MOVE that use WiFi exclusively)

Vegeta_UKAuthor

Avid Contributor I

Unless you individually switch a SONOS radio OFF, it will be active with or without an Ethernet connection. If the radios automatically switch OFF when an Ethernet connection is established, there would be no SonosNet wireless mesh and all of the units would need to be wired or you would need to use WiFi. Attempting to have some units use SonosNet and some units use WiFi does not usually work well. (except for ROAM and MOVE that use WiFi exclusively)

Thankyou very much, you have confirmed exactly what I thought I already knew. I think that’s everything that’s rattling round in my head at the minute.

Many thanks, one and all 👍🏻

Playbar // Beam (G1) // Sub (G2) // 9 x Play:1 // 1 x One // 2 x Play:3 // 1 x Play:5 (G2) // Boost x 3 // Roam x 1//Ray x 1

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