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BeamLover
Contributor I
March 27, 2025

How to make my system stable? Asus / Sonos

  • March 27, 2025
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I have been searching around, reading forums, contacting support several times, tried router settings and so on but I notice that many threads regarding Sonos and Asus are old so I thought I would create a new one for my specific case as I still have issues..

I had the feeling that things had improved recently with all the updates, but then there are still situations where everything just goes off the rails—sound disappears, it stutters, then disappears again. The app won’t pause music or change tracks, and I end up giving up, wanting to shut everything down and try again later. And when the app finally realizes I’m trying to stop the music, it takes 3–4 attempts before it actually works.

I have two Asus AX58U routers, latest firmware, did a factory reset on everything a week ago, including the speakers. I’ve set up all the recommended settings that Sonos suggests for Asus.

I do have Airtime Fairness Off, Snooping on, and everything else that is recommended for Asus routers. Wifi Channel 1 based on Wifi Analyzer being the least cluttered channel. 
Two separate SSIDs. All devices wireless.

My setups is as follows:
TV Room:
Sonos Beam Gen 2
Sonos Sub Mini
Sonos Symfonisk Lamp Gen 1 x2 rears

Office:
Sonos One SL

Kitchen
Sonos Symfonisk Lamp Gen2

Should I just buy another Mesh? Eero? My apartment is two floors so I kind of need to have mesh as one router cannot cover it all.

Thank you
 

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BeamLoverAuthor
Contributor I
March 30, 2025

As I understand it, you have 2 identical routers, a main router that is wired to the other router that is set up as a mesh device. You only have one wifi signal that contains both 2.4 and 5.Ghz networks.
I think there is something wrong with your setup of your mesh device that is confusing your sonos devices.

Try running without a cable to your mesh device, that is also how you would normally do it. Turn off all your SONOS speakers and set up your mesh network, check connection/speed/link speed, etc.

 

When you have a good wireless connection to your mesh device, turn your Sonos speakers back on. It takes a while before they jump on the network again, you can check that in the App.

 

I have a Mesh network myself and have no challenges. It is set up wirelessly, my Wifi6 router is connected with 5Ghz to my Mesh device with a link speed of approx. 2882Mbit/s I haven't disabled anything on my router, so completely standard settings except it runs at up to 160Mhz instead of 80 as seen on the slightly older routers.

Correct. I have also locked my Sonos devices to the router closest to them so they should not get confused.

 

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