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shadowbane
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3 years ago
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3 of 4 Rokus reporting internet connection issues

I have 4 rokus in my house.  1 of them is behaving fine.  3 of them in different places in the house connect fine to the wifi (excellent signal strength), but show no internet connectivity.  This is ...
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    shadowbane
    3 years ago

    After 2 days of looking at the issue, I finally decided to post here.  Not 30 minutes later I found the issue. 

    My son had connected a second wifi router to the network as another device on the network (wrong ethernet port on the router) without disabling it's dhcp and otherwise configuring it.  So the effected roku devices, while connected to my wifi router, had a 50/50 chance of getting an IP address from his router. And once they had the wrong IP range, they could not connect outwards.

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AvsGunnar
Community Streaming Expert
3 years ago

shadowbane 

Comcast does have issues with some of their routers (due to firmware updates of these routers) with connection to 2.4ghz only devices.

If your Roku devices are using/connected to the 5ghz band (dual-band capable devices), then these devices will be unaffected.  However, if you are using any 2.4-only devices, they will likely be unable to connect to the internet until the "Wireless Mode" in your router under "2.4ghz Wireless Settings" is changed to b/g/n.

Feel free to post the model numbers of your Roku devices (Settings/System/About), both working and not (specifying both), in order to verify if this may be your issue.

 

  • shadowbane's avatar
    shadowbane
    Newbie
    3 years ago

    After 2 days of looking at the issue, I finally decided to post here.  Not 30 minutes later I found the issue. 

    My son had connected a second wifi router to the network as another device on the network (wrong ethernet port on the router) without disabling it's dhcp and otherwise configuring it.  So the effected roku devices, while connected to my wifi router, had a 50/50 chance of getting an IP address from his router. And once they had the wrong IP range, they could not connect outwards.

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      AvsGunnar
      Community Streaming Expert
      3 years ago

      shadowbane 

      That would do it. 

      Thanks for posting an update and glad you got it resolved.  👍