Fire TV stick stutter / catch up on netflix

[RearAdmiral]

Basically while watching Netflix the steam will freeze momentarily(a second or two) then quickly catch up in high speed. This seems to be somewhat of a known issue. I recently removed all the other apps from my stick, I had a game and Plex. I didn't notice the issue until after I installed Plex though(I think). I thought removing it might solve the issue but I did not.

I bought the thing so that I didn't have to run my PS3 for netflix and listen to its fan and know I'm draining all that juice. Anyone else run into this issue?

 

[sdifox]

How is your wifi? Anything else have intemitent conectivity issues?

 

[poofyhairguy]

How much memory is used under system info?

 

[RearAdmiral]

How much memory is used under system info?

I'll have to check on this. Last night I went through and deleted cache and such for the photos app and anything else that was in the MB range. Everything seemed to get funky after I downloaded Plex and showed some pictures from my honeymoon stored on my PC. The photos cache was several hundred megs so I deleted the cache/data. We will see how it performs next time.

How is your wifi? Anything else have intemitent conectivity issues?

Wifi connectivity is great. I never really have any issues, this is the only problem. My house is covered with 2 routers(connected with ethernet, I am not extending). Wifi streaming on any other device is a-okay.

 

[sdifox]

I'll have to check on this. Last night I went through and deleted cache and such for the photos app and anything else that was in the MB range. Everything seemed to get funky after I downloaded Plex and showed some pictures from my honeymoon stored on my PC. The photos cache was several hundred megs so I deleted the cache/data. We will see how it performs next time.



Wifi connectivity is great. I never really have any issues, this is the only problem. My house is covered with 2 routers(connected with ethernet, I am not extending). Wifi streaming on any other device is a-okay.

try factory default?

 

[RearAdmiral]

try factory default?

I'll give that a shot if the data / cache wiping doesn't work. I'd like to know if anything in particular is causing it before I go to the more extreme measures.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I'll give that a shot if the data / cache wiping doesn't work. I'd like to know if anything in particular is causing it before I go to the more extreme measures.

The stick doesn't have much storage and shows have to buffer somewhere.