Hacker News Reader

I used to love my Chromecast. It was one of those "it just works" pieces of technology. Unfortunately, after it auto-updated, it now has a bug where it will disconnect from WiFi after 30 minutes. Anyone know of a fix or has seen this behaviour before?

View on HN

I got Chromecast in December and it has never "just worked" for me, ever. It always has a very hard time finding the Chromecast, so trying to start up a video on my tv takes several minutes. I'm ready to ditch the entire thing and get a Roku, because my experience with the Chromecast has always been really terrible.

Nice to know I'm not the only one. It does not get along with my router (WNDR3700). It will only connect after rebooting the router and even then devices can't always find it when it's connected.

Even when I did get it to work, it would bog down a lot.

I see this behavoir and I'm betting its an overheating problem. It only happens to me while streaming video

Out of curiosity, how are you powering yours?

Over the USB port on my TV, but I've also powered it with a wallwart

Reply on news.ycombinator.com