Sonos all on Main WiFI network, active WiFI Guest Network causes some Sonos nodes to drop
My Sonos system has a
- Living room setup with a Beam, Mini-Sub and two Sonos OneSL (Gen 2)
- Kitchen with two Sonos One (Gen2)
- All running latest firmware
- All Sonos items connect via WiFi and all on the Main WiFi network
My Network is
- Asus RT-AX86U Pro as the Main router which generally serves the Living Room
- Asus RT-AX86U as an AirMesh node in the Kitchen.
- All running the latest Asus firmware
All works well, until I activate a Guest Network (with nothing attached to the Guest Network), then in the Living Room the Sub-Mini and a OneSL will drop off the network. The Beam stays on however and I think the other Living Room OneSL then connects via the Kitchen AirMesh node. The Kitchen system remain OK.
To be clear all the Sonos speakers can only connect via the Main WiFi network and have never been on the Guest Network.
So just having a active Guest Network is enough to mess up WiFi connectivity to those Sonos speakers normally served by the Main router, except for the Beam. Very odd behaviour and I’d like to understand what part of the Guest Network functionality causes a clash with Sonos WiFI connectivity.
I’ve seen other posts were Users have had some speakers on the Guest Network and others on the Main network and its failed. That I can understand but not the fault I’ve got. The networks should be separate with all speakers on the Main network.