Google TV Chromecast issues

by travispickle9682

Hey everyone. I bought a Chromecast w/ Google TV a while back. I have had non-stop Wi-Fi- problems with it. I have traveled the world and tried to connect it to different routers: same issue, different router. Definitely not a router problem. It’s a Chromecast problem.

Here’s the short of it:

I connect the Chromecast to Wi-Fi. It works fine.

Then, inevitably, the connection crashes. I see a red exclamation mark next to my profile (upper right corner). The internet connection says “Limited Connection”. Nothing works.

I have tried the “date/time” trick. It only removed the exclamation mark. The internet connection is still not working. I have tried restarting the router, unplugging the Chromecast, restarting the Chromecast.

In the past, I have had to do a factory reset to get it to work. However this is a very inpractical option because a) the issue persists after a while, and b) i have to reinstall all my apps.

Would appreciate any help - it’s getting really frustrating and I am hating it

johnnygluebag

I hear you and have the same issue. Works great for a while then I get sudden video artifacts followed by the symptoms you describe. Internet that has "limited connectivity" on every wifi AP and no way to fix it. A factory reset is the only cure I've found.

Interestingly, I returned the first chromecast that did this and hooked its replacement up to the same TV. The new one eventually did the same thing. I was wondering if it's the TV itself or maybe the power bar I have everything plugged into. It's a bedroom TV so I haven't put much time into it.

I posted here months ago about this but nobody seemed to understand what I was describing.

Alternative-Wave-271

I have a CC for my kid and use a wasserstein Ethernet adapter( got on Amazon), it's well made and compatible with CC with Google tv. I would use that if I were u at home and if your speeds aren't that high. On the road, out of town you kinda stuck with wifi but that device works much better with LAN than WiFi, to me anyway.

audaciousnomad

I haven't experienced the problem you're having, but I did find this:

https://support.honeywellaidc.com/s/article/Android-What-does-limited-or-no-Internet-Access-mean

FermentBalls

Tbh, I have an old Chromecast that does exactly this once or twice a month - and it does that while I'm not even travelling, it's always connected to my home TV and the same home Wi-Fi. But, like you said, I find that restarting is the only way to solve it. Sometimes it gets resolved on its own, but that happens very rarely and I imagine no one has the patience to wait for hours to watch something on your TV. So yeah, seems to be an inherent problem with Chromecast.

im_another_user

Using a 2nd gen Chromecast I have solved this on mine today after weeks of erratic behaviour :

The channel used by your router for the WiFi broadcast might be incompatible. Changing the channel might improve the behaviour of your installation (on my router channel 1 was used for the 5GHz band, switched it to channel 13 to get it working)