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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.

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schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
June 11, 2025

You’re a f***** legend🤙🏻

 

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schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
June 11, 2025

So… It appears its the roams that dont like the GHz… They not responding now. Will keep trying but I think they might be on an older software?

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
June 11, 2025

Since switching to the other 5ghz the roams are not responding. Wonder if I replaced these with the new model same issue?

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
June 11, 2025

I’ll tell you what, after a quick reset the roams have “joined” the party… 🤞🏻 they stay.

Thanks for all your help people, appreciated. I will update in a few days once everything is working.

 

 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

So, it would appear the apple app for sonos does not like 5ghz…? I have now changed it to 2.4 ghz and will see how it goes. The connection issues persisted.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

Already after 2 seconds logging into the app now it seems to work straight away.

So, is this is SONOS issue? Now if I want to be able to use sonos from my phone I have to lose bandwidth on my WiFi for everything else in the house? Is it only apple? Is it only BT? Is it only me? lol🤷🏼

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

This is with 5ghz

 

 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

This is without…

 

 

106rallye
July 2, 2025

BT devices can be troublesome when used with Sonos. Your first problem turned out to be caused by BT, so why would your problem with speed be exclusively a Sonos problem? Especially since there does not seem to be a massive cry out form BT users on this community, this could also be specific to your situation. If you really want to know what causes this you should make a diagnosis and call Sonos about it.

Prodigy III
July 2, 2025

So, it would appear the apple app for sonos does not like 5ghz…? 

Doesn’t like your 5ghz perhaps. It works on iPhone with both 5ghz or 2.4ghz here.