I can confirm that my gen 1 nest hub gets a proper private IP through my
DHCP (even when it wants me to control my network settings) and that
nothing got better after changing my preferred DNS to 8.8.8.8 as the
primary and 8.8.4.4 as the secondary on...
Thanks for the reply and advice. I don't have the time (nor the Twitter
presence) to commit, but instead I would like to know what causes this
problem (explain it however technically explicit you want). This whole
"mobile hotspot" workaround sounds l...