Amazon fire stick?

trb46 wrote:
I have two Fire Sticks, but just replaced them with Roku because Fire Sticks are not compatible with Spectrum (our ISP). As mentioned above, good WiFi is required. The Roku Channel has a ton of free movies and programs, as does Amazon Prime.

Our Firestick works fine with the Spectrum Internet service at our NY cottage. The Roku does not support the DishAnywhere streaming app, so it would be of little use to us. Amazon Prime and many other streaming sources all work well on our Firestick regardless of our Internet source as long as we have enough bandwidth of course. I recall seeing there's a way to run the Roku Channel app on a Firestick, but I haven't tried it.

I can stream shows stored on my computer to my TV with Fire Stick but I use a MiFi device to handle that routing. Some form or router / Network setup is required but does not use any of your data limit to stream locally.
The Fire Stick is designed to be used with a live internet connection to take advantage of the many shows and programs available for free or paid in the Amazon library. I am luck to have unlimited 4G with AT&T for $20/month so I use the device almost daily along with my DirecTV service.

They are not able to store enough data to download and save movies.
Look at tablets. for example. we use RCA 10" tablets from Walmart. about $80 and have 32 Gigs of storage, and they have a mini hdmi output for attaching to a TV. Download from Netflix, Amazon prime while at a good wifi source, library or restaurant, and watch at your liesure.

A note- you can, in fact, use one with no internet if you have a media server on your local network.

I have two Fire Sticks, but just replaced them with Roku because Fire Sticks are not compatible with Spectrum (our ISP). As mentioned above, good WiFi is required. The Roku Channel has a ton of free movies and programs, as does Amazon Prime.

We've used our FireTVstick to stream programming using a 3G hotspot in testing, and worked ok with minimal buffering. It does need to be a good 3G signal though, anything below about 2 Mbps gets really annoying. Our 4G/LTE service does really well with it though, but as said, any streaming eats a lot of data.

Good internet IS A REQUIREMENT !

It uses your existing internet connection to stream video and uses a menus to find programming tthen make it easy to find. If streaming “uses to much data” this isn’t the device you want. Like Roku ,Apple TV, Chromecast , etc they all do basically the same thing. All video will use data from somewhere. Either your cell network or landline. Same with this