Bought this for travel, where it has worked very well - depending on the quality of the hotel's WIFI - but have occasionally used it at home as well. The quality of the picture and sound is very good.
The stick version is handle because it's portable. And as noted it is slow to connect. The iPhone is nice and the remote is handy and configured well. The stick, after about 3 months use, loses connection and we need to start from the opening screen again. Not sure if this one is a lemon.
We bought the streaming stick because we were going on the road for a while in our RV and needed something portable. If the signal strength at the RV park is strong, we are able to use it without a problem. If the strength is weak, it doesn't work very well. In those cases, we use our mobile hotspot and it works just fine!
Great Product, but had to move the Roku into my LR that is right next to my modem because in the BR (15 feet away) the Roku repeatedly lost signal with WiFi