MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Just got Chromecast

> Some people I follow on twitter swear by the fire stick+Kodi. At least one of them
> said the Roku 3 was pretty good though. I haven't decided yet. Still use my PS3 for
> Netflix and such because the wireless dongle on my old ass Sony TV is shit.

Yeah. WIFI performance was an issue for me too. It was super annoying when I used to use my PS3 for streaming that netflix would always work great, but I couldn't stream anything in 720p from my PC. I tried just about every dlna streaming/transcoding app that I could find, but it was always pretty shaky.

The chromecast fixed that right up, though. Primarily because you can send it video streams a little more modern than mpeg2. So if your PC is up to it you can compress the video a bit more without losing quality.

But the Roku does all of the same stuff + has interesting content available for free. So that's what I use the most now.

And I eventually got really tired of my network dropping down to 20mbps or lower for a few seconds at a time when streaming video. So I went out and bought a NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 and a new WIFI adapter for my PC. Now my PC always says it's connected at 866Mbps no matter what I'm doing. So much more reliable. I won't cheap out on networking stuff anymore. It's just not worth the hassle.