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Office has a broadband connection with router inside main office.
Sonos is being used in the house, about 50 metres away. We have been using EOP, but having recently found out these are not recommended or supported by Sonos (and I understand why) we need to find an alternative method.
Other than having a new and separate broadband service in the house, what are the options for connecting the office & house to the same BB connection?
is there a duct you can easily run a cable down between the two?
We have a bridge, but it doesnt seem to work correctly with EOP.
The bridge is plugged into the router (in office). The router has an EOP connected. Then an EOP is plugged into house (50m away) with a wireless access point.
The sonos player then connects to the AP, but the problem looks like the EOP's, as the connection keeps on dropping & reconnecting.
is there a duct you can easily run a cable down between the two?
I have suggested this option, not ideal, but what would it involve? Would it just be the case of running an ethernet cable from office to house?
Is your wireless access point also a router?
I have suggested this option, not ideal, but what would it involve? Would it just be the case of running an ethernet cable from office to house?
Put simply, yes. Just get a long enough cable (I got a 20m one for about a fiver on eBay which was of good quality) and run it across.
We have tried both a router (acting as AP) and also a dedicated AP.
It looks like the problems are with the EOP's communicating with each other, which could be lots of variables.
I have routers acting as an AP at my home and many other houses without any issues, all using EOP's.
If your internet connection comes into your property at your office which is 50m from your house then could you not have a wireless N+ router in your office? This would give you wifi coverage over your whole house (unless it's mansion sized) and you could connect the bridge to it in order to provide a connection to your Sonos, therefore ridding you of the need to use EOP.
I read somewhere that sonos is not compatible with wireless N, you have to drop the speed?
You could buy some form of wireless bridge system instead of the EOP but to be honest it would be easier to run a small duct down the garden with a cable in and use that instead.
Will probably be quicker to do than getting the wireless bridge setup properly and will be loads more reliable!
Cat5 is so cheap it really has to be the solution, and 50M is no problem. You could sook a length through some heavy duty (dry) garden hose to protect it.
Are the wireless devices running DD-WRT? if not that may well smooth some of your issues out (and give you loads of things to tinker with)
Cat5 route is simple and cheap, bung another access point on the other side and you're done... where abouts in the world are you?
petrieboy - good idea that!
If it was down to me I would (as above) run some cable through the hose pipe as I found on the web, but the guy doesnt want that.
I think the problem wit the EOP's are that there is too much being used in the house, too many appliances etc.
As one minute its all working, then its not....
passtherizla - Worcestershire.
Ah ok, so it's not your property then?
Do you work in IT?
No its a mates property, yes I work in IT and the sonos thing is driving me nuts??!! 🙂
Try unplugging everything that you can find in the house and turn off whatever isn't unpluggable, then try using the EOP adapters and see if it works then. If so, it's a power load issue. If not, it isn't and I'd try other EOP adapters if he really doesn't want Cat-5 laying.
Oh, and it drives me nuts too when something should just work and it doesn't for an unbeknown reason!
Wired, wired, wired all the way !!!
EOP=Powerline networking?
Tangent. Thinking about recommending this for someone in Switzerland. However, looking at the fuse box I'm guessing the wiring is either star ( individual cables to each socket) or separate rings for each room. Will powerline cope with that - I've seen a note on one site that the two ends of the powerline must be on the same ring.
Yes, ethernet over powerlines
I don't think it needs to be the same ring, as the security is there to prevent your neighbours using your connection, and they really shouldn't be on the same ring!
worth a short for the £30 powerlines cost these days surely?
Good point on security, and many people use it to connect different floors which are usually on different rings. Someone obviously had problems in the past though - big warming on EBay item 320865727360
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I'm based in solihull (for work) if you can't find a supplier for that length of cable, I'll make you one.