The Sony HTA9 was considered a more baller version of the Sonos setup that I have. It creates its own Wi-Fi network like Sonos, presumably to bypass contention with other stations in the user's home. The system advertises using 5 GHz wireless and it turns out that that's Wi-Fi, 802.11 and Wi-Fi. In order to get it to work without dropping out, I had to reconfigure my own home Wi-Fi to not use channels that the HTA9 seemed to like.

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