Clarity on removing SonosNet in favour of WiFi. Most info seems outdated

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Ok, what I want to do is to remove SonosNet completely and use only ethernet and wifi for my devices. Here’s what I have:

PlayBar
Roam V2
6 x Play:1

I originally setup SonosNet for my network pre-wifi-on-sonos being a thing.

I want to keep the Playbar and one of the Play:1s connected via ethernet, and have the rest use WiFi. I want to disable SonosNet completely. I have seen suggested processes that say to disable wifi everywhere first (I can’t disable wifi on my devices, the option does not exist anywhere on the app that I can find). I’ve seen countless posts saying “If your devices are disconnected from ethernet they’ll just use wifi if it’s configured”. I have both my 2.4ghz and my 5ghz networks configured to Sonos, Sonos tells me they’re they’re and available, yet none of my devices are using it except for the Roam. I followed advice that says I need to factory reset my Play:1s to add them to wifi (including the app telling me to do this). So I tried it. When I re-add them, they re-add and connect via SonosNet.

I’ve seen countless threads across this forum, reddit and others from people asking the same question I have, and noone has provided an answer that works. Anyone got current information on this? :)

regards,

Paul

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Stanley_4Answer

Grand Maestro

It is a complicated mess. If you have a Sonosnet compatible wired device with wifi (the internal radio) active you are going to create a 2.4 gHz Sonosnet. If you disable wifi (actually the internal radio) then Sonosnet won't be created by that device but you will have also disabled the 5 gHz Sonosnet used to conect to subs and surrounds from that device.

The disable wifi option is only available on devices wired to Ethernet and Sonosnet compatible.

If the Ethernet is disconnected the radio is enabled, no matter the setting.

Sonosnet 2.4 gHz is only available on some Sonos, not your Roam.

I'd recommend avoiding the mess and going full wifi, no Ethernet and seeing if that works. If it doesn't then open the Ethernet/ disable wifi can of worms

There are current discussions that have more detail. The forum search is horrid at finding new content so check every post and ignore any old information. Using an external search with the site: switch and looking at six months or newer might be less frustrating.

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paulfieldingAuthor

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Wiring the Playbar and disabling Sonosnet on it, as long as there are no surrounds or subs should work for you.

the problem is that I don’t have that option to disable the radio on the playbar, even when it’s wired up. If it would let me I would. But oh well, leaving it unwired gives me incentive to shore up my basement wifi, I can live with that 😃.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

The playbar is so old, maybe the option is only in the :1400 internal web pages and not the app?

Hopefully someone that has one can help you find it if it wasn't where I mentioned above.

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craigski

Local Superstar

Based on my above test, I think for now the simplest answer is for me to keep everything unwired to force WiFi usage, and instead get my act together and improve general wifi performance in my basement. :)

Agree. You have cabling to basement, that you unplugged from your Playbar. Unplugging all your Sonos devices will free up an additional 2.4GHz channel for you new AP. Don’t bother with latest WiFi7 APs, WiFi6 APs are fine.

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