I wish roku would make a router or one of the router vendors would do roku
embedded routers like tvs and sound bars with an hdmi out or plex connector
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We had several opportunities to stay in hotels in 2024; mainly because of
> some unexpected medical issues, but that's another topic.
>
> We often stayed at Marriott hotels, and found our Roku the best option if
> we wanted to watch anything.
>
> Although the Roku could see the Marriott WiFi, there was no mechanism to
> get past their paywall/walled garden within the Roku interface.
>
> So we connected the Roku to the ethernet port behind the TV. Curiously, we
> could not connect to the Roku with our smartphones because the smartphones
> were attached via WiFi, which was on a different subnet than the ethernet
> port.
>
> However, we could use the Roku-proprietary remote control, and that worked
> just as if we were at home.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 2/17/2025 12:54 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>
> Been in Mexico for a week or so. I travel with a surface, HDMI cable and
> adapter so I can watch all my streaming. I keep wondering about just
> taking a ROKU stick with me... I do hate to log into anything with the
> ROKU interface and I am always going to have the computer because I cannot
> stand using a cell phone keyboard.
>
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