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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

buzz
September 18, 2025

Which router are you using? Some routers default to keeping 2.4 and 5GHz bands separate. If your phone or some SONOS units are on the “other” band, they cannot communicate. Modern phone/pads might pick the same band SONOS is using and everything will be OK, but if they switch to the other band the phone/pad will lose contact with SONOS. If you have multiple phone/pads one might be on the correct band while the other is not.

If you give us more network details or work with SONOS support, there may be a simple solution. Or, some routers are so ornery it’s not worth attempting to work with them. The SONOS units listed in your Profile are modern and normally docile on the network.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 18, 2025

There has to be a simple solution. It’s not just me surely. 
 

the router I use is a BT SMART HUB 2 model below.

i thought it was Norton but it’s disabled. It’s only on android and iPhone I get the no load issue. On windows it’s bang on every time .

 

 

 

buzz
September 19, 2025

I have no experience with a HUB 2, but a little searching turns up lots complaints. Most of the posts were at least a couple years old or older. Maybe HUB firmware updates fixed the issues or users have simply replaced the HUB 2. Here is an interesting post that might be useful. If you are using extenders, they can cause trouble.

Make sure the firmware is up to date. Maybe some current HUB 2 users will show up here and share their experience.

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
September 19, 2025

If the BT has a pass-through / transparent mode adding a less troublesome router could be the easy solution.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 19, 2025

ive just turned the 5ghz off i want to see how that works

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 19, 2025

 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 19, 2025

 

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 19, 2025

So, this is the plan !!

 

 

Mr. T
September 19, 2025

Aren’t you just completing the same action you took 3mths ago at the start of this thread?

If your property has good 5GHz coverage throughout, then I’d look to use only 5GHz band for Sonos and block Sonos from accessing 2.4GHz if your BT router is capable of this task.

schnawlAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
September 19, 2025

Mate, have you been paying any attention ??