I live an three-room flat, with two rooms towards the street where I spend most of my daytime, and kitchen and bedroom are towards the yard of the house. This is an old brick house from early 1900s and the walls in the middle of the the flat are thick.
In my study I have two Play:3, a Port and a Sub, and the latter is connected to my WiFi router. In my living room, I have two Sonos Five. (So this is an S2 network.) I used to have my to Play:1s in the bedroom, but this has not been working very well. Not really surprising given the distance to the rest of the devices. (It’s the same for the phone. I does not get my regular WiFi in that room.)
Right now I have moved the Play:1s to the kitchen which is directly from the opening in that thick wall and closer to the study. As I test, I tried the Port in the bedroom and that seemed to worked. The idea is that the to Play:1s can help to route the signal to whatever is in the bedroom.
One idea is to get a Move to have in the bedroom or in the kitchen (and in this case move the Play:1 back to the bedroom).
But it is no really that I need music in the kitchen - I’ve been without it for many years.
While the Play:1 can serve as a relay - is the Boost more powerful in this regard? That is, is it better in sending and receiving than a regular Sonos speaker?
While searching for this query, I chanced to see this: “One caveat, the Sonos Move does not have the ability to connect to a SonosNet signal, but will still group with all Sonos speakers that are on SonosNet.” What more exactly is the implication of this? That if I put a Move in the kitchen, it can not work as a relayer to devices in the bedroom?
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