Wi-Fi & connectivity

[BoHam]

I’ve connected my Roku tv to my WiFi and I love using it but sometimes I would like to disconnect it so I’m not over whelming my WiFi with too many devices. Is there any sort of “airplane mode” or something that just toggles the WiFi connection on and off? I searched on my Roku app and I can’t find anything

[RokuJohnB]

Welcome to the Roku Community, @BoHam!

Thanks for letting us know about your inquiry about Roku TV. Please be advised that Roku TV does not have an airplane mode feature, but you can turn off the WiFi by accessing the "Settings" menu on your Roku and selecting "Network," where you can choose to disable or enable the Wi-Fi connection.

However, there may be a few specific situations where temporarily disabling WiFi could be helpful, such as when you want to completely disconnect from the internet or if you are having network issues and need to reconnect in order to troubleshoot. In general, turning off WiFi on a Roku TV is not considered advantageous because Roku devices are designed to be always connected to the internet in order to access streaming services, and turning off WiFi would prevent you from using its primary function.

We hope you'll find this information useful. Please keep us posted if there's anything else we can do to assist you.

Best regards,
John

[atc98092]

If you are not actively streaming on your Roku TV, there is very little data used. It will refresh the channel grid with the latest info, and once a day it will check with Roku for updates. Unless your home network has more than 200 connected devices at one time, you aren't going to impact your WiFi leaving your TV connected.

Most home routers are configured to allow up to 253 devices connected at one time. This is what is called a DHCP server, which assigned the IP addresses to each connected device. Of course, more than 200 devices all attempting to use your Internet connection would likely have an impact on overall network performance, but in reality Ethernet networks (and WiFi uses the same communications protocol once it reached the router) are really good at timesharing the connection with multiple devices. Real world, there's likely no more than 3-4 devices in your home at one time that might be using the Internet at any particular time. You really have nothing to be concerned about.