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SONOS Compatability with Orbi
Is Orbi compatable with the SONOS mesh network? I have an extensive SONOS system throughout my house (7000 sq ft). It works flawlessly and I have wondered why a mesh network for a LAN application ha...
A couple of items (some questions):
1. How many Sonos devices are there? How many of them are playing music?
2. Never trust full wifi speed tests. - Use ethernet to the main router. Wifi is inherently unstable, you need to know if it's your internet or your wifi having issues.
3. Beware of the target test server - Speedtest.net allows you to choose a single server.
4. Beware of phone tests in general - My iphone can show wildly different speeds from one test to the next while my laptop is stable.
In essence, make sure it's your internet connection that is stressed. If it is actually wifi, than a firmware reset of the orbi's is the next thing to try (not just a reboot).
These units should be able to handle that, but if it's your internet connection that is flooded, *something* is generating that traffic and it's either normal for your network load, or you have something rogue on the network that you need to find and eliminate.
--Derrek
- There are 9 sonos units in total including the bridge, doesn't matter how many are playing music at a time the same issue persists.
- I know that wired speeds are more stable, but I don't see the issues in wired speeds. So it is wireless.
- Test server never changed, and fast.com servers are always the same to netflix.
- I only used a phone to serve as a different device compared to the laptop. Both were stable at 120 when sonos was not playing anything.
- There is nothing additional running on the network besides my laptop, and phone for speed testing. Nothing rogue.
We can debate the reliability of speedtests, but what I am seeing I can replicate a hundred times over. While sonos is playing music wifi speed tests are all over the board when they stop playing music the speeds on both devices within a minute return to stable.
I just really think Orbi and Sonos interfere in someway possibly their backhaul band. I could maybe try turning off the 2.4 ghz band and see if that helps, but most of the devices are probably on the 5ghz band anyways automatically.
These Orbi's are brand new with barley a single changed setting, I hardly see how a firmware reset would fix the issue.