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August 7, 2024

Fabulous New Article: The New Sonos App, Three Months Later

  • August 7, 2024
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You may remember the extremely informative article “What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis” published by Andy Pennel on LinkedIn …

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-sonos-app-technical-analysis-andy-pennell-wigwc

 

Breaking News! Yesterday Andy published a new article “The New Sonos App, Three Months Later” and it is equally fascinating …

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-sonos-app-three-months-later-andy-pennell-vozoc

The new Sonos mobile app is three months old, and one would hope things have gotten better. My original article has been unexpectedly popular, so I thought I'd produce an update on what I think about where it is now. TLDR; N steps forward, N+x steps back.

 

I encourage anyone with technical curiosity to read the new article, which touches on several problems that continue to vex users on these forums.

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    ianm_42
    Enthusiast I
    August 9, 2024

    You may remember the extremely informative article “What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis” published by Andy Pennel on LinkedIn …

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-sonos-app-technical-analysis-andy-pennell-wigwc

     

    Breaking News! Yesterday Andy published a new article “The New Sonos App, Three Months Later” and it is equally fascinating …

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-sonos-app-three-months-later-andy-pennell-vozoc

    The new Sonos mobile app is three months old, and one would hope things have gotten better. My original article has been unexpectedly popular, so I thought I'd produce an update on what I think about where it is now. TLDR; N steps forward, N+x steps back.

     

    I encourage anyone with technical curiosity to read the new article, which touches on several problems that continue to vex users on these forums.

    Going to chime in here with my limited networking issue solving, from years ago.

    In around 2010’s we shipped pre-configured VDSL routers to my companies staff for working from home. Used Netgear DG384 routers at first, then Draytek 2700 series, all worked fine, home users had home Internet and a VPN connection to work. Never had any complaints.

    Then moved to Draytek 2750 & “2760 Linux” and all types of funnies occurred. Also seen with first Linksys Linux base routers WAG54. 

    Basically they didn’t let the router to pass corrupted IP packets (or what they thought were corrupted) between LAN and WAN and LAN and WiFi. Wouldn’t route WiFi VPN data to WAN 100% just lost packets and often refused to let pass the last packets of a  VPN TCP/IP block. DNS (and possibly mDNS) issues, packets just dropped and lost, so had to do multiple DNS lookups. Spent ages looking WireShark logs. Fiddling with IPTABLEs improved things but not as good as before.

    Replacing with later Draytek home routers 2760 series and all was fine no reported issues what so ever.

    So have people got issues with the latest Sonos networking with their setups silently dropping network packets ?
     

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