Firestick Poor WIFi
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Original Poster:

2,279 posts

124 months

Monday 3rd October 2022
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Hi all,
My Firestick is at the opposite end of my house, and upstairs to where my router is.
This gives me a very poor connectivity.
What can I use, box of some sort, that I can dispense with my Firestick, and have a wired connection directly from my router.
My Firestick doesn't have a place to plug an ethernet cable in directly.

Thanks

ten200

215 posts

122 months

Monday 3rd October 2022
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There is an ethernet adapter available for most models of the Fire stick, which connects to the usb socket. It's only 100mb, but that's more than enough for Prime video.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Ethernet-Adaptor-R...

bigandclever

14,391 posts

268 months

ae111sr

188 posts

253 months

Monday 3rd October 2022
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ten200 said:
There is an ethernet adapter available for most models of the Fire stick, which connects to the usb socket. It's only 100mb, but that's more than enough for Prime video.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Ethernet-Adaptor-R...
I've just bought one of these as I had similar problem. Installed today and it's working well.

Register1

Original Poster:

2,279 posts

124 months

Monday 3rd October 2022
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Thanks all,

For £13 its got to be worth a try

gregs656

12,380 posts

211 months

Monday 3rd October 2022
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If you're going to the bother of running a cable, maybe consider an access point? Then you would have better wifi for all your devices at that end of your house.

OutInTheShed

14,647 posts

56 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Putting the Firestick on an HDMI extension cable enabled mine to get a better signal.