Google Nest Community

I got that info from here:https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Nest-Wifi/How-do-I-force-google-WiFi-to-use-2-4ghz-to-connect-smart-devices/td-p/56908 But you're quite right, it does and is connecting at 5. It'd be nice to have it configurable to al...

The main Nest WiFi is both 5 and 2.4, but the guest network is 2.4 only, some devices will connect better to that than the main. Something to try

It's less secure than you might think. This explains why.https://superuser.com/questions/19383/why-is-mac-based-authentication-insecureI don't work for Google, but this could be why they don't do it

You're connecting the Nest via wire to your original router/modem? If you are, turn off the wifi on the original router. That way you'll know it's connecting to the Nest.

Yeah, enough to make me look up open source options. Found this: https://github.com/marcosscriven/galeforce