[TriLUG] OT: Anyone Have A Roku?

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Oct 8 17:48:49 EDT 2013


On 7/10/2013 4:05 AM, Craig Cook wrote:
> The roku 3 has wifi direct.
>
> The roku broadcasts itself as a hotspot.  The only thing that can use it is the roku remote.
>
> You can't turn this feature off (I checked with Roku support).
>
> My ipad had a desire to select the roku.  Obviously internet access didn't work.  WAF dropped.
>
> I couldn't be bothered spending the time developing a fix so I sent it back and replaced with a roku 2 XS.
>

Why couldn't you just tell your iPad to forget that wireless network, 
thus preferring other wireless networks such as your router's normal 
one?  That seems like a big overreaction just because of an extra wifi 
network showing...

--Jeremy



More information about the TriLUG mailing list