I was wondering if anyone uses Roku or Chromecast when staying at RV parks or camps that provide free WIFI. I use them at home for streaming movies and such, but my concern will be that the parks FREE WIFI will be too slow to handle the load, I also have seen places that limit the amount of bandwidth that can be used.Any comments will be appreciated.

Besides the WIFI probably being too slow to watch continuously, the Roku uses so much bandwidth that you would probably really slow any use by other people just trying to retrieve their emails.

dgodinez wrote:I was wondering if anyone uses Roku or Chromecast when staying at RV parks or camps that provide free WIFI. Evidently everyone where I stay, because the wifi is so slow it's almost useless.

Thanks, that's what I thought, didn't even bother bringing it the last few times out to try, but I just saw a blog on GS and listed as top things to have. I didn't think it would work. A few of the WIFI places I had it took forever just to get my mail!

Even the parks that have reasonably fast speeds often specifically block those kinds of streaming activities as they will pull the whole system down. Many actually block access to sites like YouTube and Netflix.

I use Roku for Netflix. I found out that you can set up Netflix to send a degraded signal using only .3 gig per hour rather than the normal 3 gigs. I'm at a park right now where I've been able to access Netflix with only sporadic slow-downs, until the evening when too many people are online. But, I've been at other parks where it does not work at all. I make sure my Kindle Reader is full of un-read books for those nights I cannot get Netflix.

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dgodinez
Explorer
Aug 07, 2014
Thanks, that's what I thought, didn't even bother bringing it the last few times out to try, but I just saw a blog on GS and listed as top things to have. I didn't think it would work. A few of the WIFI places I had it took forever just to get my mail!
2oldman
Explorer II
Aug 07, 2014
dgodinez wrote:
I was wondering if anyone uses Roku or Chromecast when staying at RV parks or camps that provide free WIFI.
Evidently everyone where I stay, because the wifi is so slow it's almost useless.
rgatijnet1
Explorer III
Aug 07, 2014
Besides the WIFI probably being too slow to watch continuously, the Roku uses so much bandwidth that you would probably really slow any use by other people just trying to retrieve their emails.

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