Timeline for answer to Can I use the CAT3 cable in my home for internet? by Ted Mittelstaedt
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:39 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @GeorgeAnderson I just broke out an old Roku3 that had been on the shelf for 8 months... it would crash and crash and crash... was giving it up for dead, but thought "why not" and explored settings and found "manual update". It said "Last updated Dec 10", it was in a box then, so maybe it meant Dec 10 2016 lol. Anyway that cleared it right up. | |
| Dec 16, 2020 at 13:54 | comment | added | George Anderson | @TedMittelstaedt Thanks for the confirmation, you are obviously a professional in the field and I'm not. Also, the WIFI worked fine for everything else, just the ROKU was crapping out. 15 years ago when I built my new home, everybody was saying, don't bother with internet wiring, everything is going wireless anyway. Well, I ignored that advice and have a pretty decent setup with cat5 in nearly every room. Glad I did. Faster and more secure. | |
| Dec 16, 2020 at 11:50 | comment | added | Ted Mittelstaedt | I have seen incompatibilities in different brands of wifi chips talking to each other many times before. In fact I carry about 10 wifi routers in my car and when I have a customer with a problem like yours I will start swapping routers out until the wifi problem goes away. The customers "bad" router then goes into my router bag and quite often months later it ends up replacing someone else's problem wifi access point and theirs goes into the bag. But in any case the wifi chip in the Roku is garbage my father got one of those and I had to do the same thing as you did. | |
| Dec 16, 2020 at 3:16 | comment | added | hobbs | @GeorgeAnderson that's not normal. Performance that bad is the result of either an extremely bad RFI environment, an absolute trash WiFi AP, or some just plain broken hardware. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | George Anderson | WIFI doesn't always work all that well for streaming video. When my wife got her ROKU it was initially setup for WIFI. Direct line of sight between the WIFI router and the ROKU box. It was slow, hung a lot, crashed. She set it up and I asked her why didn't you just plug it into the ethernet port behind the TV ? So I did that and it started working perfectly. BTW, here's your funny for the day: " what is Ethernet used for? Answer: To catch the etherbunny. Sorry, couldn't resist! Take care and stay safe. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 5:41 | history | answered | Ted Mittelstaedt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |