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XR500 & Sonos
Hi All!
I have just upgraded my Router to the XR500 Nighthawk Gaming Router.
The only major barrier I have come up against is the connection to my collection of Sonos wireless speakers (S...
I shouldn't think they're incompatible. The likely cause is the smart connect feature. Disable that so you have individual 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz SSIDs and then connect it to one of these and see if that resolves the issue.
Had this or simmilar issue today. When the 2.4 & 5 network are "same" with all the bells and whistles MU-MIMO etc. Sonos would not connect to the 2.4 network.
So what I did was enabled Guest Network (Only 2.4), created XYZ Network, enabled local share, added WPA2 password and connected my sonos with no issues immidiatly.
I'm not sure how much help I could potenitally offer here, but I have an XR500 and Sonos Ones's and Play:1's and all are working on my router. At first it didnt and it turned out to be modem issues. I am also using VLAN tagging and it works.
My current setup is Netgear DM200 in modem only with VLAN passthrough. Then in the settings of the XR500, I have VLAN tagging set to be 101 (which I believe is the default for the UK, but also what my ISP requires).
Without VLAN passthrough and the LATEST firmware on the DM200, it wouldnt work! I spent a few hours on to Netgear phone support to sort this out. On earlier versions of the DM200 firmware, for some reason VLAN tagging wasnt working and it was like my Sonos or my Nest thermostat for that matter, couldnt get an upload connection.
Thanks both for sharing your tips