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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

Mr. T
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.

The Sonos app on iOS has no issues with using 5GHz.

All my Sonos devices are connected to the router’s 5GHz, except the Arc which can only connect on 2.4GHz.

It’s more likely the BT SmartHub 2 has discovery and communication issues when a controller is connecting over 5GHz whilst Sonos is connecting over 2.4GHz. Similarly, the router could be using band steering and attempting to connect to Sonos over 5GHz, whilst your phone is connected to 2.4GHz. This would again result in devices disappearing from the app as your router can’t effectively pass data when devices are connecting over different bands.

Investing in a better router rather than the free router provided by the ISP would give you a better experience. Even your 5GHz Speedtest is only providing half of the available bandwidth available on your current plan.

Local Superstar
July 2, 2025

Your second screenshot is using your mobile data 5G connection NOT your WiFi 5GHz channel. Look at the icons just above the testid, it says ‘EE 5G’ your first says ‘BT’.

If your phone is using EE 5G mobile network, it wont be able to find Sonos products that are connected to your BT WiFi.

 

Prodigy III
July 2, 2025

Your second screenshot is using your mobile data 5G connection NOT your WiFi 5GHz channel. Look at the icons just above the testid, it says ‘EE 5G’ your first says ‘BT’.

If your phone is using EE 5G mobile network, it wont be able to find Sonos products that are connected to your BT WiFi.

 

Great spot.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

It’s funny you know. All the years I’ve had BT (about 20, my dads a director) I’ve never ever had any connection issues with anything else. EVER. As a consumer, when you buy something you expect it to work or do what it says on the box!

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

Your second screenshot is using your mobile data 5G connection NOT your WiFi 5GHz channel. Look at the icons just above the testid, it says ‘EE 5G’ your first says ‘BT’.

If your phone is using EE 5G mobile network, it wont be able to find Sonos products that are connected to your BT WiFi.

 

No its not.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

Your second screenshot is using your mobile data 5G connection NOT your WiFi 5GHz channel. Look at the icons just above the testid, it says ‘EE 5G’ your first says ‘BT’.

If your phone is using EE 5G mobile network, it wont be able to find Sonos products that are connected to your BT WiFi.

 

No its not.

The WIFI ICON is clear.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

I bet you this issue is due to the roams wanting to connect over 2.4 and the newer piece of kit being able to switch. I bet you now, I switch off the roams and just have the move and era on there will not be an issue.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

BT have been producing kit for a lot longer than sonos has existed.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025
thats 5g

 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2025

this is wifi

 

I’m not a techy but is that wifi?