Amazon Firestick 4K or try something else?

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When we visit Amazon’s website, we view products and specifications and images, yet the customer questions are as important as the customer reviews can be.

After buying and testing the 4K Max, I installed a few apps and setups were customised to get better results. Same again by checking YouTube video tutorials.

I encountered several restarts and had to try getting back to where I was previously. Other customers had mentioned this wi-fi access restart problem and decided to switch back to their 4K Fire Sticks instead.

Despite switching off the Fire Stick, we don’t always see any real improvements and continue getting restarts. So I went back to my 4K Fire Stick, just to get the proper access to the BBC iPlayer content.

Even so, I remembered that there was the Ethernet adapter for the Ethernet cable option. I connected that and got that sorted and I’ve found that this actually reduced the 109 Mb speed down to about 80 Mb instead. Even so, that still worked OK.

I didn’t like messing about with dozens of customisation options every now and then. I had created a list of these menu options based on my 4K Fire Stick and its setups and the YouTube video app’s access to Fire Stick tutorials.

So imagine how beginners would be struggling with the strange ways of the Fire Stick dealing with thousands of apps and their Permissions and allowing storage access and downloading apps as well.

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Despite a faster processor, the Fire Stick 4K Max wasn’t exactly as impressive as it could have been, so I’ve still got to check if the Ethernet access stops several restarts or not!

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