Many small businesses like restaurants, hotels and bars rely on a Sonos Systems for multi room audio they also want to offer free Wi-Fi to their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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However a problem arises when you connect your sonos system to your public Wi-Fi network. Anyone that has the sonos app can take control of the music because there is no facility for passwords in the sonos controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now this can be fixed by having a separate Wi-Fi network for staff and customers but a few more steps must be taken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You could put the staff network on a separate VLAN but this requires a VLAN enabled router and some tricky configurations that most small businesses are not going to be able to accomplish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You could put the customers on a guest network this will isolate them from the staff network and the sonos system. You will need a guest network option built into your Wi-Fi access point or controller. This can break some application and sometimes requires a captive portal or splash page that doesn’t play well with mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or the best option for most <\/strong>is to enable L2 Isolation on the customer Wi-Fi network and then connect the sonos to the staff network. This stops Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi client traffic so the guests will not be able to access the sonos controller. As a added bonus they will not be able to see any other Wi-Fi connected devices like printers or shared folders on PC’s. Now this trick will only work if the sonos devices are connected to Wi-Fi if they are hardwired to ethernet and using sonosnet you will need to use one of the other methods above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wi-Fi connected Sonos devices need a strong Wi-Fi signal to work well so first you want to make sure you have enough Wi-Fi Access Points and they are located as close as possible to your sonos units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cli<\/a>ck here to see some of our Wi-Fi Access Points that support L2 isolation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the best Sonos device for businesses the connect you can connect it to your own amp and speakers use multiple connects for different areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n