Hi Tracy, The Bridge has to be wired to your router with a regular Ethernet network cable. It doesn't make a difference how far it's away from your router, you could use a 100 foot Ethernet cable and place it 100 feet from your router. It is more important that the distance between your Bridge and your Sonos components is reasonable. In a normal 2,000 or 3,000 square foot house this should not be a problem although if you have your router let's say in a utility room downstairs at the front of the house and your bedroom with a Sonos player is at the back of the house and if your house has concrete walls it could be a problem.
Drop-outs are few and far between although I guess just with any stream the quality and speed of your internet connection will make a difference. If you have a stabil and fast internet connection you should have few problems. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Traci Duncan Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 11:19 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Sonos multi-room Wireless music system was: Bluetooth speakers Interesting, so this sort of streaming technology reminds me a bit of the Chrome Cast. There is very little to no battery drainage with Chrome Cast because the stream is happening over the wifi network, not on your device. Couple more questions.... I'm reading mixed reviews on Sonos Bridge set up. A reviewer mentioned that the bridge needs to be a few feet away from the router, is that true? For now, I would have the bridge upstairs & the play 1 downstairss. How often have you guys experienced drop out & the need to reset everything? Thanks, Traci On Jul 14, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Jesper Holten <jesper.hol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > We got sonos in our household back in April, and we have not looked > back sinde then. before sonos we had an ipod touch, wired to a couple > of computer speakers in our bedroomd and the back wired to an > amplifier in our living room. All fine if it wasn't because the > various apps we used were breaking up the signal from the various > Internet radio stations more often than we liked. > Thanks to Sieghard and others we finally got convinced that Sonos > might solve our needs for listening to radio and music services such > as spotify or Wimp and we went out an bought 2 play 1 for the bedroom > and kitchen, and the small connect pre-amp that Works smoothly with > our Integrated amplifier. > We listen to quite alot of radio from around the World, as well as > music and podcasts and we do not listen to the same Things all the > time. The fact that you can tether one or more of the units together > to play the same thing is so nice, as well as playing individual > contents in seprat rooms when that is needed is really something we > have missed and really love. > As for the risk of suddently loosing accessibility in an app is that > not always something we risk as visually impaired costomers. If I > recall back in the time people were worried that apple might pull the > plug on voice over, yet that has not happened. > Sometimes you need to take a chance in life and in regards to sonos it > is a chance worth taking, at least for me and my Family. Should sonos > break accessibility eventually in the apps across all platforms, and > can it not be undone, I am sure we can sell the hardware without too > much trouble, and we think the gain of Sonos is worth the Little risk > of sonos forever making their apps inaccessible. > HTH, > Jesper. > > On 7/14/14, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> No, Sonos has to be hard wired to the router. This can be achieved by >> either wiring one of the players to your router if your router is in >> a room where you also want a player, if not just use the Sonos Bridge >> and connect it to your router. The bridge then creates the Zigby >> network which is what all the other Sonos players use to communicate >> with each other. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of Brent Harding >> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 4:20 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Sonos multi-room Wireless music system was: Bluetooth >> speakers >> >> Can these things just hook to a wifi network? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> >> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 4:55 AM >> Subject: RE: Sonos multi-room Wireless music system was: Bluetooth >> speakers >> >> >> Hi Krister, >> >> I have had my Sonos system for 4 years and for all these years the >> app was useable with a few areas where improvements would have been >> nice. Some of these seemed simple, e.g. the labelling of some >> buttons, but Sonos seemed to ignore repeated requests for >> accessibility improvements. Neil Barnfather as well as myself >> continued to impress upon them that they really needed to make >> accessibility a priority and this finally occurred several months ago. >> I first received an invitation to Beta test and once again the first >> Betas seemed little improved. Then they came out with a major release >> which totally changed the app. Accessibility was apparently given a >> lot of consideration as everything in the app is beautifully >> accessible now. I feel that Sonos has made a commitment with respect >> to accessibility and personally am not very worried at all that >> suddenly they release a version which makes the app completely >> inaccessible again. >> >> I will check with respect to Mac accessibility, as I said, the >> Windows controller works just fine with Jaws, one of the few things I >> can think of right now which is not accessible is the information as to what is playing. >> For example, if I play a particular radio station I can see in the >> app on my iPhone who the artist is and the song title. I have not >> figured out a way to do this on the PC although I haven't spend a lot >> of time checking since mostly I just find music and play it. Even on >> my iPhone I rarely look at this information, but of course for others >> this might be more important. >> Basically when you use the app with Jaws you have to use the tab key >> to tab through the various controls similar to how you tab around in >> iTunes. You then use enter or the arrow keys to expand menus or >> select something and if you check the screen with the Jaws cursor it >> reads absolutely nothing just as it doesn't really read anything >> useful in iTunes or how in Firefox you can't read the screen with the >> Jaws cursor. But it works well with the tab, enter and arrow keys, it >> would be nice if Sonos was able to enable keyboard shortcuts for some stuff, but the app is fairly simple so it's OK. >> >> As I said, I'll check with their tech support about the accessibility >> of the Mac app and let you know what they say. Maybe in the meantime >> a Mac user who also has a Sonos system can contribute something more. >> I haven't seen Neil post anything for some time, but I'm pretty sure >> he's a heavy Mac user and I also know he has a lot of Sonos players. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> >> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you >> have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a >> >> member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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