Reply from Google support:"We've checked your case with our team, we
haven't received any major reports from them or from other users
regarding Google Nest speakers and displays being slow to respond. This
is usually caused by router or network setti...
An experiment I'm trying now is to add the following to my DNSmasq
configuration;server=/embeddedassistant.googleapis.com/#address=/embeddedassistant.googleapis.com/::My
theory is that my Google Home Max does a IPv6 DNS lookup, and tries to
reach it,...