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June 11, 2025

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  • June 11, 2025
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Starting to lose my patience with this now. I’ve had numerous phone calls and chats, read up on the site forums. Is it just me or does sonos and BT not work?

 

I’ve tried disabling all security on all devices 🙄

 

Any help before I stick this lot on ebay and buy something that actually works?

 

Is it me or the product? 😔

 

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Pinned Reply By Corry P

Hi ​@schnawl 

Welcome back to the Sonos Community!

I’m sorry to hear of the issues you have had with connecting to your Sonos system on your BT Smart Hub 2.

The ”wireless mode” setting at the bottom of your router settings screenshot needs to be changed to Mode 2:

I also recommend that you turn off “Smart” channel selection for both 2.4 and 5GHz bands, if possible.

But, for the record, your router is old. Really old. You should either call BT and ask for an updated model or simply buy your own replacement (I recommend the latter, as you get what you pay for, and any BT router will be free). If you buy your own, I recommend not spending less than about £50-£60, but a mesh system will likely cost above £150 for much better coverage of your space (and with better reliability than with extenders).

Incidentally, most devices that connect to WiFi are only interested in talking to the internet - it is not fair to compare the connection of one of these with a Sonos system of multiple devices and controllers that are all trying to talk to each other as much as with the internet. The network requirements are different.

I have just deleted half of the posts on this thread without affecting the readability of the thread one iota. For the sanity of the other users involved in this thread, I will soon close it to further discourse. If you have anything further to say, I recommend that you put it all in one post, rather than in 7 or more disjointed ones.

I hope this helps.

125 replies

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 23, 2025

It actually works pretty well on apple macbook too, same network same router

 

are you sure it’s my router ?

 

 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 23, 2025

Actually I take that back, it still has connection issues there lol

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 23, 2025

I give up. Don’t see why I should have to buy a new router.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 23, 2025

Don’t delete this thread yet as I want to try the steps listed.

Senior Virtuoso
September 23, 2025

Don’t delete this thread yet as I want to try the steps listed.

I’m sure you’ll update us, ​@schnawl 

 

Senior Virtuoso
September 23, 2025

I have a favour to ask. 

Senior Virtuoso
September 23, 2025

Please. 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 23, 2025

lol, hit me

Senior Virtuoso
September 23, 2025

Pretty please!

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 23, 2025

Go on