I have no other choice than Spectrum/Charter–it’s the only game in town.
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It took a lot of work, but one of the best things we ever did was disconnect our email from our internet/cable provider and move to Gmail. Now we have total flexibility as to providers. It was painful but worth it!
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Update: Today – April 1 – was the day we were going to call the cable company and cut the cord. This morning I came to my office (room in the house; not a Real Office) and tried to turn on the TV. It tells me the Roku isn’t connected to the internet. After one hour and lots of articles from Roku on my computer, I still can’t connect. My internet is working just fine. The other two TVs and Rokus in the house are working just fine. (I wound up getting a Roku for the Smart TV. It made it easier for the nontechnical person I live with to be able to watch TV using the same technology in each room.)
I’ve disconnected the Roku from the TV and the power, let it “rest” for several minutes, replugged it in, restarted it, reentered the password, and still no internet connection. I have no idea why. The nonfunctional Roku stick that I’m using in the office is several years old – I had it in a drawer for a long time before I installed it here just a month ago. I’m just going to buy a new Roku stick from Amazon today and install that one. I can’t think of anything else to do at this point.
Maybe the only other thing is to restart your modem?
@bearcatfan : I’ve thought about it, but everything else is working just fine. I did restart the router. When my internet is wonky, which it is from time to time, restarting the router always works. And again, the problem isn’t with the internet.
Take a Roku from a TV that works to try it in your office before buying another one. Maybe it is not the Roku.
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Did you go to settings>internet settings/network/whatever on the main Roku screen and see if your home network shows up as an option and then try and log in and connect?
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My mom is moving to her new apartment in the City. We are not getting cable for her and she will use my YTT account. Fingers crossed that it will work for her.
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Yes. Did all that.
I hesitate to upset anything on one of the TVs that works. I’m not comfortable enough with this stuff to do that.
@DadofJerseyGirl: Just wondering if you have any suggestions. I’ve already ordered a new ROKU stick – a Roku 4+, which is what I just bought and installed on our smart TV.
In the meantime, today I’m back to watching stuff in my office on cable. 
Roku sticks have a connection setup menu that shows available connections. Do you see your router on the list? If so, are you able to connect to it? If both of the above, try check connection. What speed does it report?
@Data10: This morning, it showed me two connections – the main one, which was showing as “excellent,” and its extension, which was showing as “good.” Now, even those don’t show up.
Again – the other two TVs are working fine, as is the internet on my computer. All wireless.
Hi there
If you bring your phone or laptop to the same location as this TV/Roku, how good/bad is the signal strength?
If it’s good and Roku still doesn’t connect then yes it could be an issue with that Roku. Hopefully the new one will work fine!
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Thanks, Dad. Yeah, everything else is ok, even right next to the Roku. New one is arriving tomorrow. God bless Amazon!I I do think I need a better router, however. That’s next on the list.
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New TV or older one?
No idea, but it still works with cable, so I don’t think the TV is the issue.
Well…except maybe the place where you put the Roku stick has an issue.
I don’t think so. I attached it to the TV a month ago and it’s been fine until this morning.
The connection to the TV won’t be a problem.
The other thing I thought of: did you recently place a new device in that area that might cause radio signal interference?
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