I’m at my wits end trying to find a set up that doesn’t just trade one issue for another.
I have the following sonos speakers: 2 Era 100, 1 Sonos:One, and 1 Roam.
Starting summer 2025, i started having issues where speakers would show on the sonos app, but i could not play on them either via airplay or the app. they’d show, but there would be no volume control either. It particularly affected the two Eras, then the Roam, and eventually started impacting the One as well.
On advice from Sonos, i bought a wireless extender/access point (TP Link RE315) to give the speakers a fixed access point. it was originally set up in extender mode, so had its own SSID (wifi-ext). To be able to airplay between devices without constant SSID (wifi and wifi-ext) switching on my phone and ipad, most things were moved to the new SSID (wifi-ext). this solved the issue, but started experiencing streaming issues on appletv due to fact the wifi speeds were cut in half due to wireless backhaul (that right?).
Sonos says the issue is with my ISP, my ISP says it’s not there’s to fix and that a different modem will cost $10/month. Is there a way to have one wifi network that enables airplay across all devices, but that keeps the Sonos speakers connected to the AP which is now connected to Sagemcom modem/router via ethernet? It’s been mentioned splitting the 2.4 GHz and 5 Ghz networks but that feels like would also cause useability issues (since sonos will be on 2.4 and appletv would be on 5).
