On February 28, 2018 at 23:02, Avis Rapp said...
If you are new to this...I would say Ubiquiti (buy direct off their website) or Araknis if you are a dealer. Ubiquiti is great. Very solid. Only drawback is their tech support is pretty much email only. Takes some time to get support but their stuff is very easy to setup and is very solid and plays well with just about everything. I like it alot. Araknis is also very good. Only drawback to Araknis from my experience is that their routers do not like larger sonos systems. I have had to remove a few of their routers with systems that have a lot of sonos equipment and use the ISP gateway as the router to make it work. This was also under agreement with thier tech support. The Access points still worked fine with the ISP gateways. The tech support for Araknis is great and you cant beat that! Also having ovrc with Araknis is another feature that is tough to beat. It's kind of a toss up between the two for me. I lean towards Araknis because of the ovrc and the easy access to good support.
Good Luck.
Thanks for the kind words about OvrC and our Tech Support team!
Most routers are not going to manage or make Sonos work any better/worse.
This is going to fall on the core switch mainly due to STP(Spanning Tree Protocol). SONOSNet and STP clash with each other and create loops in your network. You need a managed switch to help mitigate those loops if they occur.
There are other best practices as well. Things like hard wiring only one Sonos and leaving the rest wireless. Try to keep all Sonos confined to a single switch. At the end of the day having your core switch as a managed switch will save you a lot of time and emotional pain since you can manage STP with it.
