st_shaw wrote:

Dynamiteboy wrote:

I just don't understand how the Sonos setup I am working with could have all the issues that no one else is experincing. If there was a client side interference this major due to Sonos, that would, like you said effect literally any wireless system I deployed and I cannot imagine that to be the case.

What I will do is test with a single TP-link router on 5ghz in boost setup for Sonos and see if I can replicate my Orbi speed drops.

One last hail mary, any chance a Non-boost setup wouldn't cause me to have these speed drops? If I have full coverage with Orbi, I don't technically need a Boost setup.

I can't tell if my earlier point was clear or not. Seems like it was not.

It's important to understand that you will NOT see maximum WiFI throughput with more than one device concurrently using the WiFi!!
Wireless devices share the same radio spectrum and must coordinate to avoid colliding with each other. This coordination drops the throughput substantially.

If your prior testing involved streaming media from your phone, while doing a Speedtest from your wirlelesss laptop, then the speed drops are entirely normal.

Similarly, if you were to setup your Sonos in a non-Boost configuration, then you would have 9 Sonos devices using WiFi, plus your Speedtest laptop would be sharing the same WiFi channel, and you would see even worse speed drops.

I'm not certain yet that your results are anything beyond normal and that you actually have an Orbi/Sonos problem.

I understand your point, but here's what I haven't made clear, there is no devices on this Sonos network other than the laptop, phone and sonos. No I should not see my 120mb/s internet line drop to 20-80mb/s EVERY single test. If Sonos is really consuming this much bandwidth, most average home internet connections of 50mb/s could not even play Sonos music. This is clearly interference of some sort and not just bad reporting because of a speed test. I understand that speedtests aren't always reliable, but if they weren't reliable at all, no one would use them for anything. I wouldn't call this minor interference, this is massive interference I am seeing. A drop in 40%-80% of my connection speed.

The phone or the computer is no doing anything else other than Sonos, and Speedtesting. There is no other traffic on the network. Of course I wouldn't hook back up all 30 devices in the house and then speedtest. Who knows which one would be updating in the background or something.

That being said speedtesting a network even at a large company you can see your paid for speeds (or close to them) exactly because of this serialization. You can't claim that speedtests become irrelevant just because there are other devices connected to the network. If your point is true how come I can speedtest my home network on my phone while there are 25 wireless devices simultaneously connected to both bands and still pull 130-150 (150 being my paid for speed)?

OR my work network which we have a business line of 100mb/s with hundreds of devices and I can still speedtest 85-100mb/s. Those are the speedtest results I am used to seeing despite network traffic or radio interference.

I will continue to test and report back.

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