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DomerIN
Aug 19, 2018Guide
Orbi RBR50 Dropping Internet Connection Regularly
I have an Orbi RBR50 and RBS50 connected via wireless backhaul. They have been working perfectly for a year. For the past two weeks, the router has been dropping the Internet connection regularly, ...
Chuck_M
Feb 16, 2019Mentor
Regarding Sonos... you can only have ONE wired entrypoint to the Sonos constellation... do you have a Sonos Boost? If so, that would be the entry point and all other speakers and Sonos devices should be wireless.
walder
Feb 16, 2019Guide
Chuck_M wrote:
Regarding Sonos... you can only have ONE wired entrypoint to the Sonos constellation... do you have a Sonos Boost? If so, that would be the entry point and all other speakers and Sonos devices should be wireless.
Correct. Currently the Boost is wired to the router, all Sonos devices (speakers and Boost) now have fixed IPs. The Sonos channel is set to 1 and the Orbi 2.4 Ghz is set to channel 6.
Previously i have had the Boost wired to either the satellite or the router but the internet dropouts continued . I have never tried with the speakers connecting wirelessly to the network without the Boost.