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I'm almost at the end of my patience here. 

I have a large ish setup (3 x play 1, 4 x play 3, 2 IKEA lamps, beam gen 1, sub mini, playbase, roam, move gen 1, boost) I'm using a technicolour router (supplied by Internet provider) and have a deco mesh network with half a dozen S4 style units. I have 80mb/s WiFi which, for everything else, is more than enough. 

Been having constant issues with various devices disappearing, becoming unresponsive, not playing, I even had to switch one of the play 1s off at the plug socket the other day as even the physical button couldn't pause my music.

I reached out to sonos support, spoke to an agent and submitted diagnostics, we then tried switching my sonos net channel to 1 from the previous setting of 6 and this seemed to work. 

Until today. I'm back to where I was last week. Same issues, several speakers not showing up, even one half of a stereo pair just not working.

Everything connected to the system is up to date (literally JUST checked), I've switched the sonos net channel back to 6, tried 11, and back to 1. I've disconnected the boost, recently I had to update network settings on probably half of my speakers as they couldn't be found on the app. 

As I type this one of my play 1s has started working again, but not the other one in the stereo pair. Just seems I can't predict when and if anything is going to happen. The other half of the stereo pair of 1s has come back on.

Any ideas? Router? Mesh? Boost? Connect one or more to a mesh unit physically with ether net? 

What would happen if you would not use Sonosnet?

I think you just use sonosnet, it's how the system works. Unless I'm wrong...... 

Initially Sonos speakers needed a Bridge or a Boost in order for them to work on your home network. Sonos has since made it possible to connect wirelessly to your network without the need of a Bridge or Boost. You can also use a speaker if you wanted to hardwire instead of a Bridge or Boost.
 

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/choose-between-a-wireless-and-wired-sonos-setup

The Bridge is now deprecated and the Boost may not be needed for your setup. Try removing the Boost and going completely wireless to see if your system stabilizes.

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/switch-sonos-between-a-wireless-and-wired-setup
 

If you want or need to hardwire your system, choose a main speaker like the Beam, Playbase or Play 3 that is not use as surrounds.

 

OK, thanks ​@Pools-3015 I'll give that a try and will update. 

Also make sure your mesh is locked to a channel rather than auto-hopping around. Allocating ip addresses for Sonos devices can also be beneficial. 

That's something to try, thanks ​@nik9669a 

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