Amazon Fire TV?

rjsurfer wrote:
I have unlimited data on my cell phone and use the phone as a Hot Spot to send movies to my TV (Netflix, YouTube etc) via Chromecast, my Android tablet runs the actual Chromecast app and also attaches to the phone. This works really well although Google says it won't work !! Go figure.

Now, I would like to do the same thing with Amazon Fire and of course they say it won't work through a cell phone Hot Spot also, it must go through a traditional stand alone router..for all intents and purposes a Hot Spot is really just a simple router so has anyone tried the Amazon Fire app like that?

Your phone hotspot "is" a standalone router and should work fine with the Amazon Fire. We also have an unlimited Verizon plan and stream countless hours of video using our phone as a hotspot. We have it connect to our Roku to which the phone simply appears as another wifi access point. You can also use your phone to connect a laptop to a wireless printer just as you could with a standard router.

Actually, Chromecast is an "atypical" use of the phone because, as I understand it, you are actually mirroring on the TV what is on the phone. With the Roku and, I assume, the Fire, the phone can do anything else you wish while serving as a hotspot. With most phones, you can even have a voice conversation while continuing to use the hotspot.