Agreed...I have the same issue... Had A HIDDEN wifi on the same channel as my wifi connection and did not know where it came from... Found it with the Mac address... Roku....I understand the need at the setup.. But it keeps broadcasting AFTER wifi setup completed... Default channel is 6.. Guess what.. So is the guest network I am at... resulting in bad and conflicting channel on wifi band... We should at least be able to switch chanel on the Roku just so it's stops interfering with légitimit traffic... Basic network stuff that your engineers missed at design time... Former product manager talking... Ciao
Roku mandates wireless function for zapping ads directly into your brain.
TIP: The ads appear and sounds are much clearer & better, if the roku device is nearby on your desktop or nightstand!
Actually, it's just bad customer service. Charge extra for a device that supports a wire connection for people who want to avoid wifi and then make wifi unavoidable. The fact that it causes interference is irrelevant.
I have my own wifi access point, thank you very much. I don't need my wired ultra competing with it.
rmongiovi- you do realize if for whatever reason a wired roku was over-saturating your wired ethernet backplane on your router, then certainly a similarly running wifi roku would also then be over-saturating everything on your access point right?
If your ethernet is running 10/100 with 5+ devices then sure I guess what you pose is a problem...but for most people running gigE ethernet (or more) I would question what you are doing in a home environment to saturate that!
I would firmly argue that "The fact that it causes interference is irrelevant". Why would it be irrelevant? Its literally the problem everyone has that caused this feature request to be raised. Why would you think people's wifi networking issues caused by a vendor device is irrelevant?
