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Using Roku or Chromecast

dgodinez
Explorer
Explorer
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.
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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Explorer II
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.
What I post is my 2 cents and nothing more. Please don't read anything into my post that's not there. If you disagree, that's OK.
Can't we all just get along?

dgodinez
Explorer
Explorer
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
Explorer II
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.
"If I'm wearing long pants, I'm too far north" - 2oldman

rgatijnet1
Explorer III
Explorer III
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.