play 1 in Garage on UniFi Wifi switch

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Hello all.

My father in law has a play 3 in his dining room, playbar in the the lounge and we bought him a play 1 for his garage.

Up till now he has run home wifi with a sonos BOOST in a room closest to his garage to help the play 1 work.

However recently he wanted more wifi signal in his garage and workshop so he bought a uniFi wifi switch which by the sounds of it creates a network extension into his garage. Now the Play 1 works for a while and is spotted on the app. But then starts to drop out and then eventually sonos app can't find the play 1 at all.

To add to the mystery he plugged in a play 3 in the garage and it worked faultlessly and has yet to drop out or disappear.

Neither one of us are network orientated. So any help on why the play1 is misbehaving would be great. His words are below of the issue:

"Ref sonos
House WiFi is supplied by Vodafone.
Cable from Vodaphone router to UniFi switch.
So house is Vodafone.
Garage via switch comes up in the garage ( network ) extension via Vodafone source but comes up on the network as garage.
So play one was ok on and off but started breaking up to a point where it could not be found on the garage network but worked on the Vodafone network indoors.
Tried play 3 in garage and to date has been perfect, so to be sure was playing indoors on Vodafone but currently works in garage fine.
Tried looking at network settings but maybe I am doing it wrong.
Is it that the play 3 has better electronics than the play one ?"

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Belly MAnswer

Ok, so not an access point but just a PoE managed switch, He needs to adopt it into the Unifi console and configure it.

Strange choice of purchase to use with the Vodafone Router, £20 from Argos wound have bought a GbE switch which is plug and play. Did he buy anything else?

Broadband buyer can offer a Unifi cloud console hosting, sometimes included in the purchase price. Ask them / him how the switch is being configured / managed.

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Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

A key question before removing the POE (power over Ethernet) switch, is anything using the Ethernet provided power?

Personally I went with a far cheaper ($25) and easier (just plug it in) to use dumb switch and a POE injectors for the few devices I have that use it.

Some Ubiquity gear can be configured from the web or an App, usually not as well as from a Cloud Key or integrated (in another Ubiquity device) controller.

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