ROKU Suddenly won't connect to Internet
I've had my Roku Streaming Stick for a year and a half and I've never had a problem connecting to WI-FI or internet. Suddenly, it tells me I am not connected to Internet. I've done everything I was ...
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ClayClai, wow! It looks like you've exhausted everything except the security settings. There's at least one report that changing to WEP made the SSID show up on the Roku. I would think if that works then no security would also work. Neither of those are a solution (definitely not), but it would be interesting to see if you get the same results. That would point to some issue with security.
No joy with either no security or WEP, and frankly, in this, my third day of struggling with this, I'm calling it quits. I spent $30 for an Roku Express to smarten up my one remaining dumb TV. Fortunately, I have options, including Fire TV.
It's clear that dozens of users, of varying levels of technical sophistication. are struggling with a bug in a fw upgrade that Roku rolled out to all their users without adequate testing. We are doing so without the necessary specs or info on the internal functioning of the device. I have no such issue with my OpenWRT router, which is open source, or my Fire TV, which run mostly open source android, which means it can run Kodi as a bonus
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And where is Roku in all of this? They chose to make their product proprietary. Then they expect their user community to solve problems they created, without their assistance. That is a lousy business model.
If they come up with a fix, I'm all ears. Otherwise, I'm going to stop throwing precious time after bad money, and start looking at the available alternatives.
"my hotspot on my cell for only about 30 min now even that won't work connects to wifi but not internet"
That sounds like the mobile companies are getting wise to this "fix," and blocking your Roku. Does your phone see the Internet otherwise? I'm sure they don't want the extra load. Probably just as well. because unless your plan has unlimited data, you could be in for a big billing surprise if you try to run your Roku long that way.
A new Roku may work for a while, but if this is how they handle support for bad fw upgrades they initiate, the question is: For how long?
Wow youv done alot and to no avail .I just started with this problem the other day was working fine the next morning signal got real weak and not connected to my wireless router .I moved it closer to wifi nothing I kept restarting both wifi and roku nothing .I was able to connect roku to my hotspot on my cell for only about 30 min now even that won't work connects to wifi but not internet .everything else connects to my wifi exept roku .now I factory reset can't get past the part where they send you a code because no internet 009 code and also in network list I had a long list showing everyone by me .they are all gone only shows my network and my hotspot .both connect to wireless but not internet .I give up .but wondering if I buy a new one would the same happen I figured it broke ? I said all that lol just to ask are new costumers with new devises also having this issue ?
I really never used my hotspot before till this time and that was because I was trying to see if thier was a update or something on my roku .never gave me a chance to try .actually my cell shows roku connected to my hotspot .but it really isn't idk
Update on my roku .I don't know how but for just a few min I was able to get a very poor signal to my home wifi .and went into system update it was showing that I all ready had a update that day but I still ran a scan in the middle of the scan update my signal would drop and it wouldn't let me go further .I kept reconnecting even tho it said poor connection some howe I did that just enough to scan that update and it finally downloaded it .still shows poor connection even tho it's really close to my wifi box but at least it's playing idk what all that was but a part of it was a update I'm sure something else is wrong because normally that's a very good signal spot
