Boost is officially dead (RIP)

Maybe my four Boosts, now decommissioned and taking up valuable cupboard space, will become collectors’ items.

Surprised the Boost isn’t (yet) included in the Upgrade Programme considering the Bridge is an eligible product.

I’m still using a BOOST, and have one squirreled away. Perhaps I should consider a new router at this point ;)

Hanging on to SonosNet and several wired Sonos here, so my Boost is in a box. Not looking forward to having to fiddle my WiFi setup if I get a new Sonos that doesn’t do SonosNet.

The Boost serves me well. Not sure this is a good idea.

Full circle - from Sonosnet being mandatory to its departure. I still run Sonos with a Boost wired to the router even as all but one zone is wired back to the network. And still have two Bridges in perfect working order as back ups, updated to the latest S1 version.

Meh. As long as SonosNet is created by wiring a speaker, it may be inconvenient for me, but not a bad idea. Tech evolves, I need to try to evolve with it. I’m pleased that newer routers are able to handle things better than back in the day.
 

It will likely involve some care of speaker placement and wiring, or just biting the bullet and letting everything sit on my WiFi. ;)

I’ve tried using Sonosnet from my Beam, but that is located in a room that is not in the center of my home, further away from the One in the kitchen. I saw a clear improvement in reception on the One in the kitchen adding the Boost in a central location in my home, especially since when cooking I find myself exactly between Beam and One, which clearly inhibited reception on the One.

I must say I’ve never tried using wifi for Sonos though. Already owning a Boost and reading a lot of posts here from people having wifi problems prevented me from trying it. For wifi I use a TP-link Deco system with (mostly) cabled connections between wifi points.

Not so much mandatory as essential. In the early days WiFi was inadequate. Today it needn’t be.

Semantics perhaps, but as I recall back in the day there was no Wifi mode; it was brought in as a check the box option more for marketing than anything else to counter the “Sonos needs one wire back to the router so it really isn't wireless” negative marketing by the competition. For people like me that still use a 2011 router that works as it did when new, combined with TP link access points that are wired back to it, and see no need then for a mesh WiFi, Boost is a nice to have even today. To add here re the access points, once DHCP is disabled on the access points, Sonos is fine in their presence.