2nd TV in bedroom no 2nd playbar best way to connect ?

I explained my question badly, by lag I should have said, will the connect help stop the audio drop out that I am getting right now with all the speakers.

Eg right now in the front room the speakers are stopping and starting, the audio, is this the WiFi not coping?

If it is the WiFi will the connect fix that problem please ?

Ah, I see. My apologies for not understanding.

It's possible that wiring a speaker or a CONNECT to the router will help with the cutouts. It does set your system on a "parallel" wifi channel, which is a mesh network maintained by the Sonos devices. So if your normal wifi is having trouble reaching the furthest away speakers, it might help. When you do connect a device with an ethernet cable, you definitely should go in to the app and remove the wifi credentials from the speakers (there's a "remove" button in there, I'm told). This will keep the speakers from waffling back and forth between the SonosNet and your local wifi, and should make them more stable.

But that's only if the problem is the Sonos speakers having trouble staying connected to wifi. There's actually other potential issues that could cause drop outs on speakers, including Wifi Interference FAQ and duplicate IP address issue.

I'd certainly read the link I put there for the wifi interference, but if that doesn't fix it, you could reset your local wifi system with a restart. Unplug all your Sonos devices from power, then reboot your router. Once the router is back up and functioning, plug in one Sonos device. If you happen, at that point, to have one connected to the router with an ethernet cable, plug that one in first. Wait a minute or two for it to finish booting, and move on to the next Sonos device, and plug it in to power as well. Do each one, waiting long enough for it to finish booting before moving on to the next. This will cause each speaker to request a new IP address from the router, and since the router has been restarted, the IP list will be "fresh" and not hand out any duplicates.

For the future, if you wanted to avoid the potential of duplicate IP addresses, you should sit down with your router's manual and figure out how to assign reserved IP addresses in the router's system, and do that for all your devices.


Hope this isn't too much data, and that it helps.

You are a complete star ? your replies have been in depth and very very helpful thank you Excellent Support

Laugh. You're more than welcome. I just hope it works for you the way you want it to.