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I have a 5 second delay in streaming anything to my play 1’s which are in another room to all my other sonos components.and am wondering if its the way I have them setup on my network.

My equipment is that I have a virgin hub but a netgear orbi mesh system plugged into the hub. On my netgear mesh I have the router and two satelites. 

 

My sonos estate is such - in lounge arc/sub/2 play 5’s, in conservatory - beam and in a more distant room two play 1’s which is where I have the issue. 

The room where I have the play 1’s is where one of the orbi satelites (ap’s) lives.

I have a ethernet connection from the orbi router (via a small switch) connected into the arc. 

My orbi mesh system gui shows all sonos compponents as being ‘wired’ as they all are seen as going through that one wired connection (even though of course they connect wirelessly between themselves).

 

I am thinking that if I can get the play 1’s to connect via their nearby satelite that the connection will be better.  

 

How do i do this and does all this make sense? Can I just move the play 1’s this way or do I need to redo the whole system, as the play 1’s are very old now i am wondering if this will work etc.. 

 

TIA! 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you tried taking your system of SonosNet by setting it up on your WiFi and taking out the cable?

Thanks 106rallye,

 

I cant remember the reason that I went wired initially but reluctant to move the main system off of it. Is there a way to move the play 1’s to just wifi?

Lee.

Is the mesh wifi system channel-hopping or locked to a channel?

If you temporarily place the Play:1’s in the lounge (don’t rename them or anything; just physically move them and leave them paired in whatever room you’ve named them) how do they behave? 

Thanks nik9669a,

 

Not sure how to tell if my mesh system is channel hopping, I will look it up.

 

Also, I will try your suggestion, but i still would like to know if I can just have the play 1’s directly on wifi (its all the same SSID) while the rest of the system is wired through the arc to a port on my mesh router?

 

Lee.

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