Bonding Disabled Wireless arc with wireless surrounds

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I have 23 Sonos components and am converting at least half of them from wireless to wired. In one room, I set my Arc and Sub as “Disable Wi-Fi”, but my surround speakers (Play:1s) are wireless. How does the Arc bond with the surrounds in this case?

On one hand, I would hope the Arc’s 5 GHz radio would be used for this. But since I designated it “Disable Wi-Fi”, I’m guessing the Arc would go through my wired network, to the Sonos speaker acting as the SonosNet bridge (different room), back to the wireless surrounds.

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buzzAnswer

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If ARC’s radio is OFF, it cannot bond to the wireless surrounds or SUB.

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Ice PapaAuthor

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Interesting! Thank you, ratty. I’ll check it out.

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Ice PapaAuthor

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ratty was correct:

”I’d bet this is when they’re idle, on the 2.4GHz band. In that case there’s next to no traffic to/from them.

Look again a couple of minutes after you begin playback. They will then have moved to the 5GHz band.”

When I started playing music on the Arc, the OFDM ANI levels of its bonded partners dropped to 0. Thanks, ratty.

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Ice PapaAuthor

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Final conclusion…

The Arc can bond with “Disable Wi-Fi”, which disables the radio on the Arc. In this case, the bonding goes through the Ethernet switch and whatever route necessary to get to the bonded Sub and Play:1’s. Not the best setup, though, due to likely network latencies.

The best solution is to leave “Enable Wi-Fi” (the radio) for all four components. Okay for me since the Arc is used almost exclusively with the HDMI TV.

Alternatively, I could have gone wired for all components since they would all be in the same Ethernet switch. But this is more hassle than needed.

ratty

Final conclusion…

Isn’t that what I said at the outset? 😉

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