Slow Internet Download Speed on Roku TV
I have a Gig of Internet speed from Verizon FIOS. My Roku TCL TV (new) is hard wired (ethernet) to my router but Netflix constantly buffers and my TV Internet Download Speed is only 91Mbps!
Why is...
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NateTruth there is nothing on the Internet that streams at those speeds. Why should Roku build hardware in an Internet streaming player to support something that they'll never see? You have unrealistic expectations on what this player can do. Nothing available over the Internet streams faster than around 25 Mbps. The vast majority of content is under 20. Roku players are designed for Internet streaming. Yes, they support playing local media. But it's not their core functionality, and users must tempter their expectations based on that.
Even with my local media, I never had any issue streaming to a Roku device until I started ripping UHD movies. Now I can exceed the abilities of the Roku device. So I have two Nvidia Shield players that I use for that content. But for everything else I still generally use a Roku, simply because it works better.
I understand your point. And since my initial post was removed, you don't seem to see ours.
I did not choose this Internet speed. I only brought internet 50. Which had speeds less than 100mpbs. But Spectrum upgraded my speed on their own ( no doing of mine).
Normally I would not hold Roku accountable for the actions of another company. But they CHOSE to be in the steaming business. Part of that CHOICE is keeping up with the constantly changing environment. Especially for issues like this where it was something that would always have happened (increase in speeds).
To not have planned for that...or even to not be making plans to address something that is going to continue indefinitely, is foolish and unconscionable.
On my router I did not change anything, I was just looking at read only figures for all of my connected devices on my home network. There is no way to get this information about your Roku devices unless you login to your router and take a look. I can easily find the same information on my Windows 10 laptop or my Android phone without having to login my router. A Roku TV doesn't let you know what the line speed is from a TV, unless I don't know how to find the information, but I doubt it.
By line speed I mean the actually speed of the wireless AC circuit from my router to my Roku devices. Not, speed test.
I'm a little confused. You made a change to your router or to the Roku? If you made this change on your router, how did it affect any other devices (computers,phones,tablets, smart devices)?
And are you saying this change helped with the wifi connect?
Not all routers report connected line speeds of WiFi devices either. My CenturyLink DSL modem has never reported such, and I have had several versions over the years. My Ubiquiti access point, on the other hand, has that sort of detail available. I have also used other brands of routers (usually configured as access points), and few have had that detail available.
Nate,
Are you having a problem? Despite what I have found with a little tinkering around with Roku's Wireless AC weirdness on my devices. The weirdness that I found is not causing me any issues with my experience with my devices.
Okay. I follow you now. Yeah I can check the line speed on my router. It's a sagecom from the cable company. Took a little digging (through the different menus), but I see what you are saying.
And yes, I am still having a problem with wifi. I have had a Roku TCL tv for a year and 2 months, and suddenly (since the cable company upped the wifi speed to 250) I cannot connect wirelessly. Tried all the resets, and clearing cache. Even tried running the Tv with Ethernet to clear the wifi "speed too low" error message. TV Won't go back to using WiFi.
I found that some people have had success changing their wifi channel and another network "type"(from wifi g/n to wifi b/g/n) setting. I'm going to try this out tomorrow.
I could see how the one change (wifi network type) might work because it may tell the chipset in the TV to acknowledge a lower speed... But I am not very hopeful.
We shall see...
