Interference with Home Theater

[jonmelim]

I have a 2-point Nest Wifi mesh in my apartment that had been working fine until I set-up a new 5.1 home theather system with wireless rear speakers.  The speakers connect to the soundbar via 2.4GHZ and it is causing wifi to be extremely slow in the living room when the soundbar is on.  On a traditional wireless router, I could just connect my TV and other devices to the 5GHZ band to avoid interference but I can't find that option via Google Nest Wifi.  Is there a workaround here?

[olavrb]

Thats entirely up to the client with Nest Wifi, as there is no way to separate 2.4GHz from 5GHz, or enable/ disable any on them separatly.

Relevant doc/ guide:

• https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/6293481?hl=en

Relevant threads:

• https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Nest-Wifi/2-4Ghz-v-5Ghz/m-p/72053
• https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Nest-Wifi/Need-to-force-a-2-4-connection-to-set-up-a-device/m...
• https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Nest-Wifi/How-do-I-force-google-WiFi-to-use-2-4ghz-to-connect...
• https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Nest-Wifi/Can-I-add-wifi-controlled-devices-that-are-only-com...
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleWiFi/comments/e5d6ug/separating_24ghz_and_5ghz_for_smarthome_devices

Adding to that, there are no way to manually control what channels/ frequencies to use for 2.4ghz or 5ghz, which also could've helped.

• Maybe you can set 2.4ghz channel for your sorround system/ home theater?

[Jeff]

Hi, jonmelim.
I just wanted to jump in real fast to see if you saw olavrb's reply and to see if you still needed some help on this or if you were able to get it sorted out. If you are still needing some help, just let us know and we'll be happy to continue helping.
Thanks.

[Jeff]

Hi, jonmelim.
Just one quick final check in here. We'll be locking the thread in the next 24 hours, but if you still need help, I would be happy to keep it open. If there's more we can do, just let me know.
Thanks.

[Jeff]

Hi, everyone.
As we haven't had any activity here recently I'm going to go ahead and close the thread. If you have more to add, feel free to start a new discussion.
Thanks