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RBS50 thinks it's wired to another RBS50 Satellite
I have two of my satellites on different floors (Ground floor and 2nd floor) at opposite ends of the building. When I check the connection type on the admin page (192.168.1.1), one of the satellites ...
Are the Sonos speakers wired to Orbi or are they connected wirelessly?
The upstairs satellite has a Sonos beam plugged into it (ethernet). The ground floor satellite has a Sonos playbase plugged into it (ethernet). I had the same inclination, thinking that the Sonos speakers were creating their own network, but I have a third satellite with another beam plugged into it in another part of the house and that satellite is connected to the router wirelessly (not thinking it's wired like the other satellite). Stranger still, I have switched around the satellites and the same thing happens with whichever satellites are in the upstairs and ground positions (one satellite says it's wired to the other in the 192.168.1.1 admin page). Everything did seem to point to the Sonos playbase having something to do with this strange behavior.
That's the problem!
When you have Sonos speakers in your network you have two options:
- Have one -only one- Sonos speaker wired to Orbi and all other Sonos speakers will be connected wirelesely to the Sonos mesh network.
- Connect all speakers wirelesly to the Orbi wifi network.
It's not possible to wire more than one speaker to Orbi. This will just create IP loops and cause all types of issues.