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Chunter
Chunter
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November 27, 2025

SonosNet future?

My Boost has recently died, forcing everything onto my home wi-fi (it seems my Move will share it’s Wi-Fi settings with the rest of the system).

Before I realised my Boost was dead I have struggled for months with the Sonos system - every time I used it different speakers were missing and even the ones that did appear would rarely work correctly. Voice assistants have been awful. 

Now I learn that new Sonos products like the Era 100 and Era 300 don’t use SonosNet!

Given the truly atrocious performance of my Sonos system on my home Wi-Fi I cannot believe that future Sonos products are not going to have the option to use SonosNet (mine was rock solid for over a decade - never any problems). 

Is it possible that Sonos are going to drop the use of SonosNet entirely? If so, I’m afraid they have lost me as a customer.

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    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
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    December 8, 2025

    It would take some effort to find a current router that offered a poorer connection than the Boost, it is many generations behind current hardware and 2.4 gHz only. 

    Using a second router brings in many problems, at a minimum your Sonos, NAS and controller devices would all have to be on it. Many ISPs do not support a second router, only one is allowed to connect, using a double-NAT to work around that often brings other problems and is not recommended.

    Using a separate wifi on the same router is possible, if it is configured as part of your current LAN. Given the low data rates Sonos requires and the limited number of available channels it is hard to see a benefit. 

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