Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
1
Bad signal
on November 11, 2015
Posted by: Seth142574
from Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Gender:Male
I bought this thing about a month ago and it sucks. Always buffering, terrible signal strength. My internet is fast, ps4 can play hulu all day and this thing can't play for five minutes without buffering.
I have had a roku one for quite a while now and have had nothing but positive experiences with it and have recommended it to everyone. However when choosing to buy a new model I was torn between the stick and chrome, ultimately paying slightly up and deciding on the stick simply because it had a standalone remote instead of relying solely on a smart device. Unfortunately, the remote only worked sporadically for about a week and we had to constantly reset the remote. Eventually its stopped working entirely. Online it says this is a common problem, however despite that the advice was to just download the app on our phones and use that instead. That is working fine, but it sort of negates the entire reason we bought this instead of the chrome. It's pretty annoying, I still love the set top Roku 1 though. I'd buy one of those if you still can.
I got this product as my 3rd Roku when signing up for Sling TV. I love my other two Roku 3's which working exceptionally well. The Stick however has not been such a great experience. The major problem has been with the remote, it constantly looses connection and will not reconnect even when the button inside is pushed (new batteries do not help). This then forces me to restart the Stick which does not always resolve the issue. I have now been forced to reset the Stick to factory defaults and then have to reregister my hulu, amazon, and netflix accounts. I would not recommend this product at all.
This is very easy to install and use but burn up batteries real fast. It needs a feature to turn it off without pulling batteries out. Phone app works good.