Audio cutting out

There is much confusion in the wifi area over the terms used, extender is one of these. A very short take on this, much more detail is available if you want to find and read it.

An extender (originally) was a device that connected to your wifi, retransmitted the signal by other means and converted it back to wifi at the other end. Sonos often had issues with poor conversions and listed extender as not supported.

Along came mesh systems and the lazy manufacturers called the mesh pods extenders, the words hurt nothing but comprehension of the situation. The pods are actually Access Points, similar to the wifi portion of a home router. They don't suffer from the conversion issues the older hardware had as they operate differently with no conversions. Sonos rarely has mesh issues once tne basic configuration is set to be Sonos compatible. 

 My ISP calls it a Pod.  I have no access to settings for the Pod.  I use the Ethernet port on the Pod to connect the three devices in the KEF stereo system.  I want those three devices off WiFi.  Works well for the Move system as well.   

In a Mesh setup there are “Nodes”.

• Main Node (router)
• Satellite Nodes which can also be a router downgraded to Node status (1 to 3)

Regarding Extenders and Pods (whatever the later is) here’s an AI description that explains it better than I. Be forewarned..the links will have advertising.

• Mesh nodes (used in mesh systems) and Wi-Fi extenders both boost network range, but nodes offer superior, seamless, whole-home coverage under a single network name (SSID), while extenders simply re-broadcast a signal. Nodes automatically switch devices to the strongest signal; extenders often require manual switching and can create separate, slower networks.