Hi All,
I’ve been fighting with my sonos speakers for about 5years now. I never seem to lose hope and each year I think I figure it out, then a few weeks go by and im back to square one.
This year I really thought I had it figured out by creating a dedicated network just for my speakers and then advertising a 2.4Ghz only wireless network for that network which again only my speakers connect to. That way there is no more sonosnet. There is no other interference on the network.
Everything worked great for 16days and then i wake up to:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/sonos-en/attachment/cf7df257-a1cf-4dcb-91d5-1a1a515846b0.png)
Here is what the speakers look like on my network when this happens(notice the “wifi” column - theyre all dropped off from a router standpoint...but in the app theyre in a state where they are connected to the wifi, but they arent responding? how?..):
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/sonos-en/attachment/4ca001a7-54ee-4751-bfd4-c22ba419352f.png)
So I reboot my entire network. All devices go offline. This is very disruptive, but its gotta work right?:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/sonos-en/attachment/e58f6210-20f6-4826-a960-d218d18ee0f9.png)
Nope theyre jacked up still...everything else on my other networks are connected right back up. Sonos app just shows the same screen with the gear icon and “Lets Fix it” at the top (which never works).
The final fix (its been over an hour now), is i have to walk around the house and unplug each speaker, wait 5mins, plug them back in...its insane. Theyre hard to get to so this isnt a sustainable solution.
TLDR:
What is happening with my speakers? How do they all just drop off a very stable unifi network, where they(speakers) have their own dedicated network and 2.4Ghz SSID? And how can i fix this next time it happens WITHOUT resetting each speaker’s power?