Help please - Upgrading Connect:Amps

Hi @Dusty262 

Welcome to the sonos community, I hope I can help

The Connect Amp is now replaced with the Sonos Amp which is an updated version of what you have, so wiring would be easy as just replacing with newer version. If you go for Ones and want stereo then you need 4 Ones for indoors and Sonos Amp for outdoor speakers - personally I would just replace all three connect amps.

Sonos are doing an upgrade option so it might be worth you looking at this before you buy, see https://www.sonos.com/en-gb/tradeup

Dave

Which leaves the question why you would want to replace devices that are still working. Doe this have anything to do with the confuison about legacy devices? If so, my this wil clarify things: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/4786?language=en_US&utm_source=ENsonoscommunity

Thanks so much Dave for the response.  It sounds like the Amp is what I need to continue to use my existing speakers. I’m have been having some problems with one set of indoor speakers anyway so was leaning towards replacing that connect amp with a set of ones as that would give me the added bonus of being able to move them to a different room if I wanted (at least that is my understanding). 
 

thanks also for the response 106rallye. In fact my current connect amps are not working, but that’s my own fault. I recently switched  my home internet to Fibe, which means that I no longer have wired internet  connections. They will install some if you specifically  ask for them, but I wasn’t thinking about the Sonos when I had the installation done. It was only after I tried to use the Sonos and couldn’t get it to work that I realized that one had always been connected to the modem. So now I have to either upgrade my connects or to pay my internet company to come back and install a wired connection. I’m assuming that I will have to upgrade at some point, so maybe I am better off doing it now - unless there is a way of connecting over wifi?  The app can’t connect to my connects at all....

You could move one of the connect amps temporarily (if possible) and wire it to your router, without connecting the speakers to it. That would give you access to all of them in order to change the Wi-Fi signal they are looking for. Or, you could get a a BOOST, or a Sonos One that would serve the same purpose. 

Bruce,

it doesn’t appear that I can wire one of then into my router. However, are you saying that if I get a Sonos One I might be able to connect it to my wifi and then use my existing connect amps?  I hadn’t thought of that, but if it works that would be great!  Since I was considering getting a One anyway, if I got that first I could at least try.  Thanks so much for the suggestion!  I assume that a One SL would do the same thing?

Sure would. Pretty much every Sonos product creates the SonosNet signal when wired to the router with an Ethernet cable.

The Sonos One, in all its guises, is a great speaker, too ;)

Oh, wait. Would I have to wire the one tomy router with an Ethernet cable? 

In order to use SonosNet, yes. I’m confused now about what you’re trying to do, as your initial post is about upgrading, and we seem to have ended up talking about how your system connects to your LAN. 

@Dusty262. Like Bruce, I am confused, and I think you may be too. Switching to fibre internet should have no impact on how your Sonos works. What do you mean by 'wired internet connections'? Do you mean Ethernet cables run internally in your house? If so, those are not needed for Sonos.

I fear that you are misunderstanding some fundamentals and are therefore at risk of making some expensive mistakes. 

I’m sorry- I’m being confusing. I really appreciate your help!  
 

This post was initially about upgrading because I can not get my existing Sonos connects to work, and i  thought to fix it would require an expensive service call to my internet provider, and if that is the case I would rather spend that money on upgrading old equipment vs getting the old equipment working. 
 

I think my problem is that I no can no longer physically wire anything into my internet. My wifi works fine, but I can’t plug Ethernet cable into it. I thought the new Sonos  equipment could connect over wifi, but now I’m not sure. If it can connect over wifi, I’m wondering if I can connect my old Sonos connects through a new One, if that makes any sense