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On 22/09/2024 18:12, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> Is there some way to force the Pi to not bother attempting a 5 GHz
> connection?

Not that I know of. I use different SSIDs for my 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi, to 
be able to select the one I want for each device.

Where 5 GHz is marginal I also include the 2.4 GHz SSID in the 
wpa_supplicant.conf with a lower priority, so it will fail over to that.

---druck