Beginners • Re: Force Raspberry Pi 4 to use 5GHz only

Thanks, Kip
I tried that, but it didn't help. I even added the 2.4ghz MAC address to the MAC address blacklist, but nothing changes. It stays connected to 2.4ghz after "sudo nmcli connection reload" or reboot

This is the content of the file:

[connection]
id=nick
uuid=1ef03454-b5b1-4bfe-98ed-ec737d1a83f6
type=wifi
interface-name=wlan0
permissions=
timestamp=1748776421

[wifi]
mac-address-blacklist=28:87:BA:97:CE:87 # the 2.4ghz MAC address
band=a
mode=infrastructure
seen-bssids=28:87:BA:97:CE:86; # the 5ghz MAC address

ssid=nick

[wifi-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
psk=xxxx

[ipv4]
dns-search=
method=auto

[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
dns-search=
method=auto

[proxy]

Statistics: Posted by nikolav — Mon Jun 02, 2025 10:41 pm

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