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Orbi RBR50 and Sonos Playbar
I have tried to use one of the ethernet ports on the back of the RBR50 satellite unit to the Sonos Playbar and it brought down the satellite unit (lost its connection to the base). The base router was...
Have you tried to connect it to the main router see if it behaves the same way? or maybe assigning the device a static Ip before plugging it back in.
DarrenM
I did not try to plug it into the main router. It works fine over wifi. It may be due to the amount of multitasking traffic created by the Sonos product. I'm really just alerting Netgear so they can look into it.
Did you convert your entire Sonos system from Standard (WiFi) mode to Boost mode prior to plugging the Playbar into the Satellite?
In Standard (WiFi) mode the Ethernet ports on Sonos are supposed to be disabled, so there would be no Ethernet traffic on the wired port.
Yes I did convert that playbar to ethernet. Things were working fine and then the satellite went down. I could not bring it back up again and it would glow magenta. I tried to factory reset it and still could not get the main router to recognize it. At which time I decided to unplug the Sonos Playbar from the ethernet port and everything started working again.
Does anyone have a setup where the satellite is connected to a sonos product?
How close was the playbar to the Orbi satellite?
Do you have more than one Sonos product, or just the Playbar?
I can tell you for certain that Sonos speakers and the Orbi will interfere if you place them too close together. I've seen it happen in my house. I keep them 8-10' apart.