You're bitter that you have to ditch your neighbors wifi password to make your shit work right. It's okay bud, we get it.

You're bitter that you have to ditch your neighbors wifi password to make your shit work right. It's okay bud, we get it.

People are hating on this post but you have a valid complaint. HomePods can be particular about WiFi routers and some people have found that they operate better on 2.4Ghz rather than 5Ghz but there’s no way to specify that, even if you have different SSIDs for each network. I ended up configuring my router to ban their MAC addresses on 5Ghz, a setting my router thankfully has.

People are hating on this post but you have a valid complaint. HomePods can be particular about WiFi routers and some people have found that they operate better on 2.4Ghz rather than 5Ghz but there’s no way to specify that, even if you have different SSIDs for each network. I ended up configuring my router to ban their MAC addresses on 5Ghz, a setting my router thankfully has.

Had this issue as well, didn’t want to forget the WiFi network since I used it often but wanted to stop the HomePod connecting.

In the end I ended up blocking my HomePod from the other network’s settings so it can never connect to that WiFi network.

If you’re friends with your neighbor and his router lets you do that, then go for it, I don’t see Apple changing this even if you file feedback.

Apple doesn't want users changing settings in anything. They don't feel users are smart enough to use what they paid for, except in very specific "apple" ways, and are annoyed their computers need sysadmins sometimes, but are working to be rid of them too.

It’s ridiculous. I have two wifi nets, one is not for iot devices but my phone is allowed there so I can ssh onto machines there. My “solution” was to blacklist the homepods from that offending AP by mac address.

This could easily be a toggle

If you bought home pod, you already proved that you can’t be trusted