Chromecast is driving me insane for the past hour....

[kaerflog]

This damm thing was the easiest thing to set up when I first got it.
Nothing to it. Plug and play.
I touted to everyone how genius this damm thing is.
Haven't used it in a couple of weeks so I plugged it in tonight and it started updating.
Once it was done, none of my device playing netflix/youtube would show the "Cast" icon.
So I did a factory reset on the thing.
My Android device recognized the Chromecast again. Tried syncing with the wifi at home but it wouldn't connect.
So I did a reset again and tried it with the iPad. It seem to go through the entire process just fine. Even said my wifi network on the TV.
Tried netflix/youtube again and no "cast" icon any where.
I've been going through this over and over and its driving me insane.
Had it was this difficult, when I first got it, it would have been right back at the store.
WTF.....nothing has changed except I changed out my cable modem box a couple of weeks ago.
Did the update to something to it ??
I swear I want to break this damm thing into pieces.

 

[postmortemIA]

no need to reset to factory defaults... you'll need to do first time setup again, easiest is with chromecast android app.

 

[cronos]

Have you tried rebooting your wifi router? Unplug it and wait 30 seconds and plug it back in to make sure its cache is flushed. My router is flaky so I know whenever something connected wirelessly is misbehaving all I needed to do is just reboot/flush its cache and it always fixed it.