1GBs ethernet for Roku Ultra (2024)
I would buy 3 or 4 of these if they had at least 1GBs ethernet. Everything else I have is 1GBs to 2.5gbs. Many of us, for very technical reasons, including wifi interference with other systems, do no...
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jeremyp1971 while I agree it's time to bump the wired connection to Gigabit, you have to remember Roku devices are designed primarily for streaming media from the Internet. At this time there simply is no online provider that comes close to saturating a Fast Ethernet connection. If your desire is to view media from a home server (as I do) there is no Roku player (including this one) that does everything needed for such viewing. Besides the slow Ethernet (although it does fine on 5 GHz WiFi), there is no support for image based captions (which almost every DVD/BD disc uses), they won't bitstream the lossless audio codecs to an AVR, and the processor in even the fastest Roku is at its limit when playing uncompressed 4K ripped Blu Ray content. For that, you need a better player. I still use the Nvidia Shield for my "serious" home media playback, although there are a few other Android based players that can do the things I described above.
I still use Roku players for casual viewing of my local media, as well as online sources. For that purpose, they are fine as equipped.
