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When I check my Netgear router it shows that I have one (or sometimes more) ZonePlayer ZP100 connected as wired devices.  It also shows: two Sonos-One, a SonosZP Sub, a SonosZP Play:1, a SonosZP Entertainment (the devices on this list change often)

I do not and never have owned a ZonePlayer device.

In my configuration, I have an ethernet wire connecting to a Sonos One and everything else is connected to it via SonosNet.  The full set is:

5 - Play:1
1 - Sub
1 - Play:5 with connected Sub
3 - Sonos One  (one of them wired)
1 - Play:3

My question is, why does my router show ZonePlayer(s)? (and why does the list of things fluctuate)

Routers often show Sonos devices as “SonosZP” by default. Depends how the router attempts to determine the name: NetBIOS, mDNS, MAC address, etc.

I always rename mine in the router UX so I can more easily tell them apart.

Thanks for the quick reply.  I don’t understand where the device names come from (why “Entertainment” or “ZP 100”, for example), or why they fluctuate (I just refreshed it and now there’s only one wired device listed, the SonosZP One, which actually makes sense because that’s what the router is wired to).

Maybe it’s a quirk of my router.  It’s not my major concern now, but I came across it when trying to troubleshoot noise issues (which might be the topic of another post) and wanted to understand it better.  I’ll just accept what it’s doing move on. 

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