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Hi All

 

I’ve got multiple Sonos products and they have a nasty habit of dropping connection randomly.

 

My network is an Orbi Mesh network (RBR350 with 2x RBS350’s), I’ve manually assigned and reserved IP addresses to the three sonos speakers I own. The Ray is connected via Ethernet to one of the satellites but the play:3 and the sonos one are connected via wifi. These all have been re-named on the network to ensure there are no name conflicts. 

 

All three will randomly drop from the network. I’ve rebooted the network, reset the sonos speakers, updated everything, done the rejoin the system one at a time and ensured that everything has different addresses.

 

Nothing else on the network drops connection (Mobile phones, laptops, pc’s, chromecasts, apple TV’s, game consoles, etc) just the sonos speakers. Usually when attempting to play “everywhere” after about 10-15 minutes. Sometimes they play fine for hours but will stop unexpectedly with the flashing white light and checking the app requires the speaker to be re-started to re-join the network.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks for the help

My experience is that multiple Sonos devices connected to different nodes of a mesh system regularly have issues.  This is normally due to automatic channel switching of the nodes to address Wi-Fi interference.  I got rid of my Google mesh network for this reason.  As a test, are you able to connect one Sonos device to the base node with an ethernet cable to rule this cause out?  Your Sonos devices will automatically then create their own mesh network)

Oh man that would be good but no, the sonos speakers aren’t really located anywhere near the base node at all unfortunately (or at least definitely not without running cable through the roof - which isn’t going to happen at this point)

 

I’ll try and get that done at some point though

 

thanks for the tips

 

Amazon and others sell cheap 100 and 50 foot Ethernet cables, easy to use for a test and usually won’t aggravate the spouse if put away once you are done. They even have colors.

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