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RBS850 - How to prevent 'wired' backhaul via Sonos
My Orbi RBR850 and two RBS850 with Sonos Boost connected to RBR850 runs perfect. To increase SonosNet coverage outdoor I connected a second Boost to RBS850. This temporarily did run perfect, boosting ...
Regarding your constellation of Sonos speakers... Are any "hard wired"? I see you have two Boosts..., but are any other speakers connected via ethernet?
Only one Boost and no other Sonos device is connected by wire with Netgear (RBR850). The second Boost serves the SonosNet wifi mesh network and is not wire connected.
So the second Boost is not connected to the network via ethernet? It is stand-alone?
Please read this article (if you havent seen it already)
https://freetime.mikeconnelly.com/archives/6050
Chuck_M wrote:Please read this article (if you havent seen it already)
https://freetime.mikeconnelly.com/archives/6050
Wow! :-)
- The article is great and exactly explains why it is important to have all BOOST devices wire connected tot the router. I do achieve the mentioned SonosNet improvement initially when connecting the additional BOOST devices tot the RBS850 satellite, until it decides tot reconfigure from wifi backhaul tot wired backhaul. The article hints at the preference of an ethernet switch between BOOSTs and router. I am not an expert in this domain, do cannot measure network data packages, nor its types, however I am running An experiment with ethernet switch between BOOST and satellite. Not sure of this makes sense, but it is stable now for 12 hours, showing all green in the SonosNet matrix. Will keep you posted with results.
