Connecting Bluesound Node 2i to remote stereo system over WIFI -

I don't have a Node 2i but I do have two Node 2's.  With the Node 2, the Wi-Fi reception was downright lousy.   It worked okay if it was a few feet away but more than 8 feet reception became pretty bad and some days it didn't work at all.  It does work quite well with a hardwire internet cable though. 

I'd return them both if I could as they do not work as advertised but the BS folks tell me this is a normal behavior. 

^^^ What he said. I have two Powernodes for in walls. When I connected to home s2 ch system there was a noticeable degradation with WiFi plus lots of dropouts. I finally hardwired them.

My node 2i sits next to my router and is connected via Ethernet, not WiFi. What I’m trying to do is broadcast to a remote room system. The Bluetooth connection from the node works, and sounds fine (for my purposes), but it drops the connection from time to time, and it’s not as easy as I  would like to get the Bluetooth receiver reconnected. I was thinking if I could buy a cheap WiFi receiver with its own dac that could sit next to the remote system it would be perhaps more reliable. I haven’t spotted such a connection in the node manual though.

The Node 2i doesn't do what you want it to do via wifi. Maybe a Bluetooth range extender would help with dropouts. Best of luck.

The SVS unit offers a 45 day in home trial with free shipping and returns. Seems like it’s worth a try for what you are looking for.