Play 5 Gen 1 - Cat 5 Cable Linking - Not To Router

  • 7 February 2023
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Right or Wrong? 

 

Does connecting Gen1 Play 5's together via Cat 5 actually improve the transfer of data? Note, not connected to the router, just in a bank together. 

 

I'm guessing that if they are connected via Cat 5 then one of the 4 acts as the receiver that talks to Sonos Bridge on WiFi? 

 

Configuration below... 

Room (1)  Router > Cat 5 > Sonos Bridge Gen 1 

 

Room (2)  Sonos Play 5 Gen 1 x 4, all connected to each other via Cat 5 Cable

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106rallye
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It surely is an exotic way of connecting Sonos! Why don’t you just try? And post the results here….

N

True! Will do and report back.

Airgetlam

The data travels from the router to the BRIDGE, then to any of the Sonos PLAY:5s via SonosNet, and each one, I believe, assuming that the ‘radio’ is not turned off, gets the signal via the lowest ‘cost’ router. Normally, that should be via cabling, but should for some reason, SonoNet have a lower ‘cost’, it would accept the signal that way.

For what it’s worth, I’d seriously consider retiring the BRIDGE at this point, before it goes bad and causes a headache. Either wire one of your PLAY:5s, or put your Wi-Fi data into the Sonos controller before you retire the BRIDGE, so the PLAY:5s are on your local Wi-Fi signal.

Minor edit.., there is only one generation of the BRIDGE. The newer, better, faster replacement device is the BOOST, which also supports S2 (although that’s not significant to you…but it’s a lot better even in an S1 system).

Bruce
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Thank you Bruce for the detailed reply!

In summary;

Remove the BRIDGE, replace with BOOST.

Should I still leave the Play 5's connected to each other via Cat 5 cable or is this a waste of time?

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