Beam and Sub with AMP

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I know this question has been posted several times, but the answers don't seem to be helping me.

I have an Amp set up in my basement with 2 in ceiling speakers. The AMP is daisy chained to two more AMPs by ethernet cables, and then runs into a switch.

It works fine as a stand alone room.

Then, I added a beam, and a sub to the same room. The Beam (wired with ethernet or wireless) and the sub (wireless) work together for my TV, but I can't get the AMP speakers to work with them, and now that I tried adding the AMP speakers as surrounds, they no longer come on at all... Even if I try to use them as standalone.

What am I missing.

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Ken_GriffithsAnswer

So in summary, If you choose to wire a Sonos product make sure it’s always back to the primary orbi hub only. Do not wire them to a satellite orbi hub, just leave them wireless.

The issue that then arises, is the fact the Amp is not in the same room as your Beam, which in a bonded HT setup would usually communicate over a 5ghz ad-hoc network link between the Beam and the Amp and if it’s too far away then that link won’t work… you therefore will have to wire them to the LAN and as stated it’s best to wire them both to the primary orbi hub or the same switch off that hub.

The sub in the same room as the Beam should bond and run fine on a wireless connection.

Hopefully it should then work.

If you do wire one (or more) Sonos products to the primary Orbi hub, I also recommend you goto the Sonos App "Settings/System/Network/Wireless Setup” and remove/reset your orbi wireless credentials from that area… that will stop your devices hopping between SonosNet and your Orbi WiFi system. Also set your SonosNet channel, so that it is at least 5 channels away from your Orbi 2.4Ghz channel to reduce interference.

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ShanerMAuthor

Contributor I

Ok, problem solved. What I did was to unplug the ethernet cable for my Basement in my IT room from my switch, and run it directly into the amp, and then the other port on the AMP runs into the primary Orbi hub. So I have tied the Beam and the amp together.

Thanks for the advice guys.

buzz

Grand Maestro

I’m not exactly sure what you have done. It would pay to check the WiFi speed to your phones and wireless computers. Traffic through AMP’s Ethernet ports is limited to 100Mbps.

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ShanerMAuthor

Contributor I

So, to be more clear, I have 7 rooms in the house that all have ethernet ports. Al those ports run to a patch panel, and then from the patch panel to a switch. The switch then runs into my Orbi base station.

My basement runs on patch panel number 6. i have the Beam plugged into this port in the basement. I unplugged number 6 from the switch, and ran that line directly into the AMP for the basement. Then, I ran another line from the AMP to the Orbi. So my Orbi has 2 lines going into it. 1 from the switch, and one from the AMP.

I just ran a speed test on a PC in a different room and got 316mbps download.

So, all good!

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