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?
What is your cable internet level of service?
How many other devices are running at the same time?
My service used to be around 18 Mbps and I could have 2 streaming football games, a baseball game, a hockey game and a Netflix movie going without any degradation.
It can depend on your ISP. Mine is sometimes glitchy, especially when they are working on the equipment or lines.
ROKU must be taking priority somehow.
Ultimately thee is only X bandwidth to distribute on a given internet connection. For every device added there will be even degradation (sucking up a portion) unless some are prioritized. Box 1 may have priority and then Box 2 will get any leftover bandwidth so that Box 1 has access to full speed and the rest get it’s unused ‘cycles’ so to speak.
Roku should not simply degrade bandwidth simply being attached and no viewing occurring. If it is, something is very wrong.
Not to beat a dead horse, because you know what’s up better than I do with your situation.
Yes, all throughput will be degraded. It’s just that the smaller the download, the quicker you’ll get your page refreshed, degraded or not.
And under this situation I would recommend the smallest possible. It may allow all of you to get your needs met.
I wish you success.
I got a new modem from Time Warner recently, and have Road Runner extreme.
does fiber optics use a modem or is this an ignorant question?
I believe you can also adjust the picture quality setting on Roku so it isn’t trying to grab the highest-definition signal. You can change from 1080p to 720p and probably not notice the difference but you aren’t making your Roku and router work as hard which can free up more bandwith for other items.
Completely irrelevant.
Yes. run 720p
you are probably too picky
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Yeah? So what?
I am at 15. The person using the roku is not tech savvy tomorrow I will check to see how things are wired together.
I think the Roku was being used during the degrade. But it degraded much more than Netflix does.
The Roku shows up in my network screen with five bars and says I can connect to it. odd.
On another note, bought a Sony Model BDP-S2500 Blue-ray player that is supposed to be wireless. I have the manual but am unable to get a screen menu item allowing me to connect to our WIFI. Any suggestions?
But keep everything on the Wi-Fi as I believe anything hard wired in will take signal away from the Wi-Fi router. Think about it this way: If someone on the Ethernet (hard-wired) straw is drinking up some of the bandwidth there's not as much left for the thirsty people using the Wi-Fi straws.
In my rather large home, I can run multiple instances of Netflix on various tablet and computer devices wirelessly throughout the house while the main Roku in the family room is also running wireless. Unless I get to a corner of my house, where reception drops off, I never have any issues.
I have a sony blue ray and you have to get the sony’s brain to be first in priority over your own TV’s brain. And that is above my pay grade.
I’d look at it’s setup/router setup and see if there is some priority scheme going on as I can’t imagine how it could be sucking up extra bandwidth otherwise.
Thhink of it like this. A gig is a gig/Meg is a meg. The file coming in (Say “Rambo” the movie...is x gig. Your connection is Y gig.
After the router, Y is divided up. The router simply broadcasts shotgun style to it’s channels over the etherof wireless UNLESS there is something saying Roku gets a fixed bandwidth guarenteed. That would degrade available bandwidth to all other connections.
That does not have to be hard set in the router. Roku and the router can work that out wirelessly if Roku has something in setup to prioritize it.
So we all have hardwired cable and this guy wants that 200 station cable, we have no cable boxes on any tvs, they all are managed by the tvs. No one watches tv except him, we all watch Netflix only. And we all watch it wireless. The Roku is evidently wireless. Hmm.
Ok I will look at roku and see how it is being prioritized. Any idea of where I should look for that? On his TV with roku enabled?
It would have to be in the basic setup program. Unless, highly unlikely these days, that there’s a physical switch. Where exactly I could not say. I’d just do a search on “Roku priority”
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