Posted on 11/30/2015 5:45:04 PM PST by Chickensoup
Roku Question. Recently Housemate installed Roku, Bandwith is degraded on other devices? Is it a bandwidth hog? We run several tvs and computers in the building off of cable TV and cable internet.
But noticed that Roku was on and was degrading the computers thruput. It is off now and we are back to usual whizzing speeds.
Thoughts?
But noticed that Roku was on and was degrading the computers thruput. It is off now and we are back to usual whizzing speeds.
Sure. Only so much water can go through a pipe. ROKU/any streaming vid chews a huge chunk of bandwidth.
You don't need wi-fi for your Roku or computer internet. Get a Cat 6E ethernet cable and hard-wire that puppy in.
How big is yer pipe?
Roku should only eat about 5Mbs
When you run video devices, the bandwidth is excessive.
FReeping takes almost no bandwidth except when loading a page.
If you need to, select the smaller page load setting. It may speed up your page loads.
I have mine set to 250, but you may want to go to 50 or lower if possible. You’ll load your pages faster and that may help you.
Probably happens with any device downloading megadata at the same time as computer is on the internet - I notice that when wife and daughter are streaming a movie or the latest “Downton Abbey” on the smart DVR at the same time I’m on FR for example, I’m waiting lots longer for threads to pop up for reading - just the way it is apparently....
But the other two tvs use Netflix and not seeing this sort of bandwidth degradation
I think the tv has a cable in the back
My Roku is hard wired. I have Road Runner, and have no decrease in speed on either of my computers while watching streaming on my Roku.
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Depends on how big your pipe is and what else is running. Do you have other devices streaming at the same time?
We have a solid 8-10Mbps down and can easily run 3 streaming devices (Roku, AppleTV, BlueRay, etc.) at once, plus several browsers and not have any issues.
Normally I freep at 100 but all thruput was degraded.
Should be plenty of bandwidth.
I am using RR too
I use Roku in 4 bedrooms and a living room. When company is here everybody can settle in at night and watch netflex or Amazon prime. Everything is wireless and the router handles it all quite nicely.
Perhaps a momentary blip then.
I was surprised to see the degrade. I checked and there was a roku device on the network.
Perhaps it needs to hardwired in?
Ok I will watch this then, and see if it can all be managed wirelessly in a good way.
What are you using for a router?
Could be that your Ethernet cord is crappy, you're using the cable modem provided by your cable company, or you have the bare-bones Internet plan.
Even if you live in a Bill Gates mansion, hard-wire your computer and Roku (or Apple TV, Chromecast, etc.) Don't use the cable company's modem; buy your own. My Roku and computer are hard-wired; and my modem has dual wi-fi so I can use my smartphone as well.
you are probably too picky
You could try that but wifi works ok for me
Could be the router or modem
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