Question Wifi Music Player

[optimus29]

Dear All,

My friend wants to setup some Wifi music players in his house to play music simultaneouly. His house is about 3500 sq.ft.
The broadband RJ45 jack is located in his living room connecting to Router1 in my illustration.
He has laid network connections to all rooms to connect to different routers.
In order to facilitate wireless connections of all devices, all routers have the same SSID and password.

We have tried to use Google Home Mini. If all Home Mini are connected a single router, they can play music simultaneously.
However, due to signal reason, each Home Mini at each room is connected its nearest router.
As a result, all Home Mini are not in a single LAN and simultaneous playing is not feasible.

Does anyone know if there is any Wifi music player in the market that can achieve his goal in this network topology?

Many thanks.

Ray

 

[JackMDS]

If Router 2 and 3 are used as Router it will not work.

Router 2 and 3 have to be configured as a Switch with an Access Point.

http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

 

[aigomorla]

as jack stated, you need to disable DHCP server on router 2 and 3, and make them all access points / switchs, and have DHCP server only working on Router 1.

This will allow you have the same topology.

If there is a reason why you must keep them off the main topology for security reasons, then you will need another router or a managed switch and make r2 the DHCP server and r3 DHCP disabled and acting as a switch / AP for R2.