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Orbi stability and Sonos tips required
Hi all, I am in a ground floor flat which is an old building and quite spread out. There have been dead spots in the past with wireless and I have used home plugs as a solution but have been more...
adhodgson With Sonos you have two options: WiFi or Sonosnet. I use Sonosnet with my Orbi. I have 9 sonos devices and it works perfectly. You need to consider the following points.
1) WiFi--If you setup Sonos for WiFi, each Sonos device will connect to Orbi. If you want to use WiFi, you must never plug any Sonos device into any Ethernet connection, or the entire Sonos system will switch to Sonosnet.
2) Sonosnet--You should plug one, and only one, Sonos device into a wired Ethernet connection. This will cause the Sonos to create a private mesh network on 2.4 GHz. You must manually set the channels used by Sonos and by Orbi such that they do not overlap. That usually means you must set Sonos to use channel 1 and set Orbi to use channel 11, or vice versa. This is the most robust solution, as Sonos creates a true mesh network. However, you must have a sufficient number of Sonos devices, and they must be placed such that they can connect to each other and form the mesh.
If you place Orbi and Sonos devices too close to each other, Sonos will stop working. Keep them separated by at least ~1-2m.
What are the dimensions of your flat and what are the walls made of?
Thanks for the refresher. This got me to reviewing my Sonos setup. Everything is setup for SonosNet, but I can see the IPs that Orbi gave out as the router. It should be that way, correct?
Yes, each Sonos device will have an IP handed-out by your router. Sonos bridges its private mesh network with your LAN. That's why you can plug a device into the Ethernet port on any Sonos device and access your LAN from that device. I have a printer, a weather station, and a thermostat controller plugged into a Sonos bridge. (This bridging is also why you should not plug in more than one Sonos device. You can potentially create a network loop and crash your entire LAN by doing that.)
