[ale] OT: Roku

[Jim Kinney]

Just a thought: when you tried using a cat5 wire, did you also turn off the
wireless?  Not at the roku (which is questionable) but at the router itself.
This way you _know_ the cat5 is being used.

Second thought, put the laptop in the same physical location at the roku and
try the netflix again. There may be a localized interference that is
exacerbated by heating of the device.

Lastly: external fan effect - does it make a difference if you have really
excellent cooling? shoebox with 6" fan and roku in the front to make sure
all air flows through the gizmo is cheap test rig.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 11:59 -0400, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> >
> > I get no wireless failures with Roku nor do I get wired failures.
>
> The wireless failure is a hardware failure that happens with time.  My
> daughters use the Roku so it stays on 24x7.  I bought the box in 07/09
> and I think the wireless failed in 01/10.  What happens is that the box
> no longer can "see" access points.  It will lock up in the configuration
> page for wireless.  If you try to get the MAC address of its wireless
> adapter you get all 0's.  This is not an intermittent problem.  It is
> death of the wireless transceiver.  If you google and look in forums
> you'll see this scenario.
>
> I do not know what causes this.  Possibly the heat from being left on
> either makes solder joints fail or kills the chip.
>
> Before the wireless failed we had some issues streaming anything on the
> first box.  It is so hilarious because the girls stopped watching Roku
> but used a laptop in the same room running Windows XP and Netflix
> streaming!  After I saw that I doubted signal strength was an issue and
> decide more on hardware.  When someone is doing something on a laptop
> next to a device that should be able to do it, it is hard to blame the
> network on that one.
>
>
>
>
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