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Has anyone else had a terrible experience thus far?

I bought my chromecast the day it came out. Since I have gotten it I have had nothing but problems with it.
First, getting it to connect to my WiFi was a complete pain in the ass. It took me 2+ hours and my final solution was to disable NAT, connect the chromecast, then re-enable NAT. So, fine. I got it to connect and it kind of worked.
~20% of the time it works flawlessly.
Now, the other 80% of the time it will say ready to connect and say it is connected to my home WiFi but the chromecast app either says there are no devices or there is a device that needs to be setup. Also, if I manage to get it to work and start playing a movie on netflix, I often lose the control over it during the course of the movie and the only way to stop it from playing is to unplug the dongle.
Has anyone else had this awful of an experience? What would be the cause? I am contemplating going and buying a new router (mine is a modem/wireless router for centurylink MN: C1000a).

athorax said:
~20% of the time it works flawlessly.
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Calls to mind the Anchorman quote: "60% of the time, it works every time."
My first thought is that your AP restricts client-to-client communication, resulting in difficulty communicating between your phone and the Chromecast. However, that doesn't explain the NAT issue you had.

I had some of the same issues with losing controls and not being able to pause or stop a movie/video but the Remote Cast app from the market helped with the loosing controls part. As far as the chromecast losing the network connection unfortunately I ended up hooking up a cheap belkin router in addition to my good router and it works with the belkin just fine without loosing connection.
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athorax said:
I bought my chromecast the day it came out. Since I have gotten it I have had nothing but problems with it.
First, getting it to connect to my WiFi was a complete pain in the ass. It took me 2+ hours and my final solution was to disable NAT, connect the chromecast, then re-enable NAT. So, fine. I got it to connect and it kind of worked.
~20% of the time it works flawlessly.
Now, the other 80% of the time it will say ready to connect and say it is connected to my home WiFi but the chromecast app either says there are no devices or there is a device that needs to be setup. Also, if I manage to get it to work and start playing a movie on netflix, I often lose the control over it during the course of the movie and the only way to stop it from playing is to unplug the dongle.
Has anyone else had this awful of an experience? What would be the cause? I am contemplating going and buying a new router (mine is a modem/wireless router for centurylink MN: C1000a).
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Having similar issues. Using Samsung LED TV. Setup seemed ok, but 'casting' anything from my phone is slow and tediously painful, it even seems to make the apps on the phone slower to respond than if they are *not* casting, i.e. Netflix loads quickly and transitions normally, but when I attempt to "cast" the phone app seems to act slow and the TV seems to take almost a full minute to catch up to what I selected from the phone, if at all.
I have a brand new router; My samsung TV is wifi enabled, I just don't use it much. The thought occurs to me that perhaps there is wifi RF interference so I may attempt to disable the samsung's wifi feature tomorrow and see if the Chromecast behaves more responsively.

I had troubles connecting to my Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. But I learned years ago not to fool with that router as it makes other things worse. So, I've had a separate Wifi hotspot for years (just another router with the router stuff turned off) and my Chromecasts (I have 4 of them) work just fine with that. If I were you I'd go to Fry's, or equivalent, and buy a cheap router and set it next to your existing one. Routers go for as cheap as $14.99. The one I use cost about $25. Your life will be much easier.

My experience has been flawless using the Chromecast in two different locations. Both locations have routers and wireless AP's that run either DD-WRT or Tomato however. There doesn't appear to be anything inherently wrong with the Chromecast hardware overall (but you might have a dud unit), but the reliability of it obviously depends on your wireless AP and router equipment.
What equipment are you using for your wireless AP and router?

Haven't had any issues with mine or my friend's. Two different routers, but both setup and run perfectly. Might be a router specific issue.

BrianAllred said:
Haven't had any issues with mine or my friend's. Two different routers, but both setup and run perfectly. Might be a router specific issue.
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Mine has been flawless. It set up in seconds and works perfectly.
I have been casting a bunch of YouTube and netflix with no issue.

I've got about the same experience. Turns out as soon as I start casting my Wifi network performance is reduced to rubble and the Netflix & Youtube apps on my phone freeze up. Without casting pings to the (Asus RT-N66U) router is around 5ms. After casting the pings are all over the place (200ms - 1sec) with lots of dropped packets.
I have 3 out of 4 signal bars on the Chromecast, but the problem appears to be reduced if I bring it closer to the router. Almost seems like a HW problem.
I'm using Shibby's Tomato rev 124 on the router btw.
athorax said:
I bought my chromecast the day it came out. Since I have gotten it I have had nothing but problems with it.
First, getting it to connect to my WiFi was a complete pain in the ass. It took me 2+ hours and my final solution was to disable NAT, connect the chromecast, then re-enable NAT. So, fine. I got it to connect and it kind of worked.
~20% of the time it works flawlessly.
Now, the other 80% of the time it will say ready to connect and say it is connected to my home WiFi but the chromecast app either says there are no devices or there is a device that needs to be setup. Also, if I manage to get it to work and start playing a movie on netflix, I often lose the control over it during the course of the movie and the only way to stop it from playing is to unplug the dongle.
Has anyone else had this awful of an experience? What would be the cause? I am contemplating going and buying a new router (mine is a modem/wireless router for centurylink MN: C1000a).
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I've got about the same experience. Turns out as soon as I start casting my Wifi network performance is reduced to rubble and the Netflix & Youtube apps on my phone freeze up. Without casting pings to the (Asus RT-N66U) router is around 5ms. After casting the pings are all over the place (200ms - 1sec) with lots of dropped packets.
I have 3 out of 4 signal bars on the Chromecast, but the problem appears to be reduced if I bring it closer to the router. Almost seems like a HW problem.
I'm using Shibby's Tomato rev 124 on the router btw.
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Google has it on their router page but sounds like you're not running the stock firmware, so could be any number of things.
First thing I'd check is UPnP and multicast. If either are blocked/disabled it will cause trouble.

bhiga said:
Google has it on their router page but sounds like you're not running the stock firmware, so could be any number of things.
First thing I'd check is UPnP and multicast. If either are blocked/disabled it will cause trouble.
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I run a slightly older netgear router with tomato firmware and everything plays fine... I keep UPnP off because (at least on my router's model) I was told it can cause problems.
o2blom said:
I've got about the same experience. Turns out as soon as I start casting my Wifi network performance is reduced to rubble and the Netflix & Youtube apps on my phone freeze up. Without casting pings to the (Asus RT-N66U) router is around 5ms. After casting the pings are all over the place (200ms - 1sec) with lots of dropped packets.
I have 3 out of 4 signal bars on the Chromecast, but the problem appears to be reduced if I bring it closer to the router. Almost seems like a HW problem.
I'm using Shibby's Tomato rev 124 on the router btw.
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Try turning UPnP off on your router page, as well as turning off Wireless Isolation

Apk07 said:
I run a slightly older netgear router with tomato firmware and everything plays fine... I keep UPnP off because (at least on my router's model) I was told it can cause problems
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Yeah UPnP really depends. If it works, leave it. If it doesn't, it's worth toggling to see if it makes a difference.

Mine works flawlessly as long as the wireless signal is good. Setup was an snap (have an ATT Uverse/2-Wire router). All I had to do was put in the password and it connected on 1st try.
Used it the other night in the kitchen and I kept losing controls and it kept dropping out before I remembered that the kitchen TV is in a bad spot for wireless. Moved it to another TV and it was rock solid again.

Just bought mine today, setup and use work great. The only thing is no fullscreen casting (the experimental one) and some frame dropping not using it as it was intended (casting a remote desktop tab for fullscreen games).
It may solve some router issues to include an extender or additional bridged router that has it's own SSID. Just in case it's a compatibility issue. It might help to have a clean slate to troubleshoot with.

I had a number of issues originally when first using it, the setup was very hit or miss (kept failing) and I had huge reception issues.
Later Google OTA updates appear to have resolved the setup issues I had on earlier builds and I ended up solving my reception issues by purchasing an HDMI extension cable and migrating my chromecast out of my home theatre cabinet where it was getting impaired wifi signal.

oarking said:
Just bought mine today, setup and use work great. The only thing is no fullscreen casting (the experimental one) and some frame dropping not using it as it was intended (casting a remote desktop tab for fullscreen games).
It may solve some router issues to include an extender or additional bridged router that has it's own SSID. Just in case it's a compatibility issue. It might help to have a clean slate to troubleshoot with.
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Yes, contrary to what Google might imply, Chromecast does not have to be on the same wireless network as your other wireless devices. As long as they're bridged, it works fine. That's how Chromecast can be on 2.4 GHz WiFi while my phone is on 5 GHz WiFi, and my computer is wired.
The only hard requirement is that for setup, you need a supported device with 2.4 GHz 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n wireless because it needs to connect to the Chromecast's internal access point that is available during setup.

I have the same router just running merlin instead of tomato. No issues with latency.
I did try it at a friends house and they had some netgear router and latency went through the roof for everyone. Unsure exactly what happened but made the entire wifi network lag horribly.
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I have the same router just running merlin instead of tomato. No issues with latency. I am running 3 rt-n66u's though... 1 as a router and 2 ap's... Maybe the load was spread out enough to not bog down one of the boxes?
I did try it at a friends house and they had some netgear router and latency went through the roof for everyone. Unsure exactly what happened but made the entire wifi network lag horribly.
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Chromecast network issues

Does anyone elses Chromecast wreak havoc on their network? My other devices slow down, and my router seems to occasionally go in and out. What might solve this? It's not a speed issue, as this doesn't happen when streaming on the computer or wii.

standing by this thread. My tablet phone and laptop all have expirienced this slow down. speed test is still showing a 25ms ping and 30mbps down, but youtube and play store are timing out on both my phone and tablet, and when trying to cast from any device, the entire thing lags out. then i lose the cast button...
haven't found a solution yet

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Does anyone elses Chromecast wreak havoc on their network? My other devices slow down, and my router seems to occasionally go in and out. What might solve this? It's not a speed issue, as this doesn't happen when streaming on the computer or wii.
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When I set up the Chromecast for the first time, my router totally locked up. I rebooted it and haven't had any problems since. I am running an ASUS RT-AC66U w/ Merlin-ASUSWRT firmware.

I have a similar problem. I use my Chromecast and then my router chokes up till I reboot it.

My dlink router was from 2007 and chromecast would lock it up completely. Bit the bullet and bought a new router and haven't had any issues since.

Ph33zy said:
My dlink router was from 2007 and chromecast would lock it up completely. Bit the bullet and bought a new router and haven't had any issues since.
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Been considering getting one anyways. Might as well do it.

Chromecast slowing my internet connection
Experiencing an issue kind of similar to the OP's. Basically while my Chromecast is plugged into the TV, even when not in use, it slows my internet connection. I normally get between 25mbps and 35 mbps down on a speed test and gaming as well as file downloads work great. As soon as I plug Chromecast in, my download speeds on a speed test drop to about 1.5mbps to 6mbps. All of a sudden online gaming is basically impossible due to ping spiking and downloading files becomes extremely slow. If I unplug the Chromecast my internet speeds return to normal. I don't know what Chromecast is doing, but something is taking it's toll on my network.
Rebooting the router (Linksys E1000 I believe) has down nothing to resolve the issue. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is there a way to make Chromecast hibernate or something when it's not in use? Any information about what could be causing the issue or things to try would be helpful. Thank you

Corrected the issue
I was able to fix the issue. Turns out my Cable Modem has a built in router that my computer was plugged into. I also have a linksys (wireless) router that is connected here. The chromecast is connected to the linksys router. I unplugged my computer from the cable modem (router) and plugged them into the same router as the Chromecast (Linksys). This appears to have fixed the issue. Someone that is better with this stuff could probably explain why, but I just wanted to follow up.

Totally!
I had this problem too. I have a Chromecast, AppleTV, GoogleTV and Ouya all right next to each other, with the Chromecast in an "always on" state. Ever since plugging in the Chromecast, network performance on the AppleTV and GoogleTV has been unusably slow. Even VNCing into my desktop PC, which is hard-wired into my cable modem, was slowed down.
I unplugged the power on the Chromecast last night, rebooted the AppleTV and GoogleTV and voila they work wonderfully. Network performance on other connected devices seems to be much better as well.
Would having several wifi devices in close physical proximity be the cause, or is it more likely Chromecast's need to be "discoverable"?
FWIW my wireless router is an Xfinity modem.

chomecast network issues
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has found a solution to this, The Chromecast works but it makes my network unuseable. FWIW I have an Asus RTn56u router that has no problems otherwise

artiemd said:
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has found a solution to this, The Chromecast works but it makes my network unuseable. FWIW I have an Asus RTn56u router that has no problems otherwise
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Can you describe what happens in a little more detail?
Does your network get slow, does your Internet get slow, do your devices suddenly say there is no wireless network? Something else??
"Unusable" can mean a lot of things.

bhiga said:
Can you describe what happens in a little more detail?
Does your network get slow, does your Internet get slow, do your devices suddenly say there is no wireless network? Something else??
"Unusable" can mean a lot of things.
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Sorry, thanks for responding..
My internet access on other devices becomes very slow to the point of being unusable if the Chromecast is plugged in.

artiemd said:
My internet access on other devices becomes very slow to the point of being unusable if the Chromecast is plugged in.
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It's slow - but it still works?
Hmm, Google says your RTN56U is compatible but to contact ASUS for assistance which I'm guessing means ASUS might have an beta or pre-release firmware that fixes the issue.

Chromecast
bhiga said:
It's slow - but it still works?
Hmm,... Google says your RTN56U is compatible but to contact ASUS for assistance[/url] which I'm guessing means ASUS might have an beta or pre-release firmware that fixes the issue.
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Yes it's slw but works. I'll check out that link thanks!

artiemd said:
Yes it's slw but works. I'll check out that link thanks!
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Here's the properly-rendered full table:
https://support.google.com/chromecast/table/3477832?hl=en&ref_topic=3447927

I'm having this same issue. I'm using an Asus rtn16 with tomato firmware by shibby. Quite frankly it's ridiculous that this is a problem for chromecast. My router is a newer model and it should be supported. My roku 3 is able to stream just fine off my WIFI. All I've been able to deduce thus far is that when casting, the wireless interface of my router seems to get ddosed in some way because when pinging the router wirelessly from other devices, the pings skyrocket up to 1000ms and it causes some packet loss. Ends up making the chromecast stream really badly and of course my other devices slow down. When pinging the router through a wired connection during this time, the pings are sub 1ms. So it seems that the chromecast wreaks havoc on the wireless interface for whatever reason. As I said before, no other devices in my home cause the same symptoms. I may try to see what I can gleam from sniffing the network with my alfa usb WIFI adapter which is able to capture everything going across the air in promiscuous mode. I'm not sure if a lower level wireless spectrum analyzer would be necessary but let's hope not. Or let's just hope Google gets this sorted! I realize that some have fixed this by switch routers, but I don't see that as an acceptable solution since no other devices have issues with my router.

wilsonbrett85 said:
I'm having this same issue. I'm using an Asus rtn16 with tomato firmware by shibby. Quite frankly it's ridiculous that this is a problem for chromecast. My router is a newer model and it should be supported. My roku 3 is able to stream just fine off my WIFI.
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Roku and Chromecast work in very different ways and therefore use the network in much different ways. Chromecast has a discovery protocol that Chromecast-enabled applications use to find Chromecasts on the network. This involves multicast packets, and while most routers handle and allow multicast just fine, some either are stupid/flawed or are shipped with "secured" default settings that block multicast traffic.
After discovery
What applications and content are you casting from?

bhiga said:
Roku and Chromecast work in very different ways and therefore use the network in much different ways. Chromecast has a discovery protocol that Chromecast-enabled applications use to find Chromecasts on the network. This involves multicast packets, and while most routers handle and allow multicast just fine, some either are stupid/flawed or are shipped with "secured" default settings that block multicast traffic.
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What applications and content are you casting from?
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Tried youtube, tab casting, and plex.
Youtube barely gets through a video. Tab casting works for a couple seconds, then chokes and loses the connection. Plex buffers every 5 seconds. I actually do notice ping rises to around 500ms when using plex on my galaxy note 8, when the client fetches chunks of video every 10 seconds or so from the server. i noticed that this happens over tcp, whereas tab casting sends a udp flood. but I'm not really sure what is 'normal' as far as the ping going up when the wifi is being used to capacity. I can imagine that saturating the network would do that. I know that plex will pull data in chunks as fast as it can. So that saturates the wifi for about a second or two for every chunk. But I guess for whatever reason, chromecast saturates it even more. Not sure if its because its udp or what, and I don't really know why that would make any difference.
So, streaming with anything else is ok, on both G & N modes, causing ping to go to around 500ms.
When streaming to CC, on both modes, ping can hit 3000ms at times and total packet loss.
I'll see if playing with any of the advanced wifi settings in the router can fix it.

Not sure this is relevant but I have seen a bunch of issues being reported by people using custom Router Firmware....
Not just here but on other sites as well...
Maybe it's just coincidence...

wilsonbrett85 said:
I can imagine that saturating the network would do that. I know that plex will pull data in chunks as fast as it can. So that saturates the wifi for about a second or two for every chunk. But I guess for whatever reason, chromecast saturates it even more. Not sure if its because its udp or what, and I don't really know why that would make any difference.
So, streaming with anything else is ok, on both G & N modes, causing ping to go to around 500ms.
When streaming to CC, on both modes, ping can hit 3000ms at times and total packet loss.
I'll see if playing with any of the advanced wifi settings in the router can fix it.
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Your network bandwidth seems "bursty" - not a big deal for general data transfer, but definitely an issue for streaming where sustained throughput is important.
What's your signal strength on your Galaxy Note?
Can you increase the signal power on your router?
Also, check your router's orientation. Often times the internal antennae are designed to operate in specific orientations, so putting a router designed to stand upright on its side can drop the signal dramatically as the devices are no longer within the transmission cone/donut.

'No Cast Devices Found' (Am I missing something?)

I'm really not seeing any threads with workarounds for this error message.
I know I haven't been around in quite a while, am I just missing them? If I am, please point me in the correct direction.
If not, I can update this thread with some workarounds I have found (May also help Google in helping their customers, can't explain any further than that). Seems like it would make sense to have a thread dedicated to that.

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I'm really not seeing any threads with workarounds for this error message.
I know I haven't been around in quite a while, am I just missing them? If I am, please point me in the correct direction.
If not, I can update this thread with some workarounds I have found (May also help Google in helping their customers, can't explain any further than that). Seems like it would make sense to have a thread dedicated to that.
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These are a list of things that can be at play...Most are Router related
No Multicast capability, Multicast Disabled or Filtering On
2.4 Ghz band disabled or not supported by the router (CCast only has 2.4Ghz WiFi)
IGMP Enabled or Proxied
AP Isolation on
UPnP settings
IPv6 Disabled
MAC Filtering Enabled
Firewall and Security Programs blocking ports
Incompatible Routers
Check here for possible solutions
https://support.google.com/chromecast/table/3477832?hl=en&ref_topic=3447927
and make sure your CCast has a Solid White Light cause if not then you need to use the setup program to configure it

What if it works seemingly fine, but then proceeds to intermittently drop off and display the 'No cast devices found' error.

zcace said:
What if it works seemingly fine, but then proceeds to intermittently drop off and display the 'No cast devices found' error.
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How is the WiFi signal at the Chromecast? The HDMI Extender can help a lot in some cases.

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How is the WiFi signal at the Chromecast? The HDMI Extender can help a lot in some cases.
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WiFi is strong. It works fine from all my other devices, it's just Chrome. I'm on a Windows 8 PC. Sometimes it'll work perfectly for hours on end. I have everything except my LAN turned off (or so I think), checked binding orders, my windows firewall is off, and it just keeps happening.
Actually I will report back, I thought I had IGMP disabled. I didn't, so I just turned it off.

zcace said:
WiFi is strong. It works fine from all my other devices, it's just Chrome. I'm on a Windows 8 PC. Sometimes it'll work perfectly for hours on end. I have everything except my LAN turned off (or so I think), checked binding orders, my windows firewall is off, and it just keeps happening.
Actually I will report back, I thought I had IGMP disabled. I didn't, so I just turned it off.
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If that doesn't change things, check if you can adjust your router's UPnP Advertisement time and see if that correlates with your dropoffs.
Beyond that you can try the Wireless Portable Devices setting in the Firewall and enabling IPv6 as described by folks in this thread.

I had similar issues when I first played with the Chromecast which were being caused by Wifi signal - it appears that due to the location of my Chromecast (in a media cabinet) the signal was severely degraded. I tried it in the TV directly (as opposed to the home theatre) and this increased the performance for me as it was out of the cabinet and ended up buying a hdmi extender to run it up into a higher location so it would get better signal.
Not sure if you're getting the same but that's what I'd look at.

zcace said:
What if it works seemingly fine, but then proceeds to intermittently drop off and display the 'No cast devices found' error.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443288
And the second thread is linked from that one.

Anyone who is using this in a Home Entertainment environment would be wise to get a Wireless AP extender to place near the Home Entertainment cabinet because all those devices throw off so much RF that can easily interfere with the CCast connection.
It's one of the reasons I wish they had a USB Cable similar to the one used for Flashcast that you could put a wired USB ETH dongle in and wire it up.
Thats something I would expect @Kyonz and Team Eureka to be adding to their ROM at some point. That would be a damn good upgrade to the Unit for those with Reception and Network issues. We might even get a sense of exactly what Bitrate the CCast Hardware can handle when the Network isn't getting in the way.

bhiga said:
If that doesn't change things, check if you can adjust your router's UPnP Advertisement time and see if that correlates with your dropoffs.
Beyond that you can try the Wireless Portable Devices setting in the Firewall and enabling IPv6 as described by folks in this thread.
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This is getting weirder, IGMP disabled. It worked solidly for over a week, and now it's dropping off again. I can't help but think that wi-fi signal is strong as all my other devices work fine, and the CC is in the same room as the router, a month old Netgear R6200v2. I played with uPnP advertisement time and nothing changed, its still dropping off. Restarting the router fixes it. I feel like the problem is on the Windows side though, because every other device works perfectly fine, including Chrome on my Macbook, and all mobile devices.

zcace said:
This is getting weirder, IGMP disabled. It worked solidly for over a week, and now it's dropping off again. I can't help but think that wi-fi signal is strong as all my other devices work fine, and the CC is in the same room as the router, a month old Netgear R6200v2. I played with uPnP advertisement time and nothing changed, its still dropping off. Restarting the router fixes it. I feel like the problem is on the Windows side though, because every other device works perfectly fine, including Chrome on my Macbook, and all mobile devices.
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Since rebooting the router seems to help it feels like it's some advertisement or multicast related thing. It "registers" at router start but eventually the client is ignoring it. Does the Windows machine go to sleep, turn off its network connection, or auto connect to VPN or another virtual network adapter?
Sent from a device with no keyboard. Please forgive typos, they may not be my own.

zcace said:
This is getting weirder, IGMP disabled. It worked solidly for over a week, and now it's dropping off again. I can't help but think that wi-fi signal is strong as all my other devices work fine, and the CC is in the same room as the router, a month old Netgear R6200v2. I played with uPnP advertisement time and nothing changed, its still dropping off. Restarting the router fixes it. I feel like the problem is on the Windows side though, because every other device works perfectly fine, including Chrome on my Macbook, and all mobile devices.
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You mentioned Windows 8...
Make sure IPv6 is enabled on both the Computer and the Router.
If your router does not support IPv6 that may be the cause of your problem.
But it is on the list of Compatible routers which leads me to believe you have IPv6 disabled on the Windows8 machine.

bhiga said:
Since rebooting the router seems to help it feels like it's some advertisement or multicast related thing. It "registers" at router start but eventually the client is ignoring it. Does the Windows machine go to sleep, turn off its network connection, or auto connect to VPN or another virtual network adapter?
Sent from a device with no keyboard. Please forgive typos, they may not be my own.
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Again let's keep in mind that the CC works perfectly fine from every other device. Been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix through my phone and it goes for hours and hours without a hitch.
With that said you're on to something with the sleep idea. My sleep for displays is set to 2 hours, and my hard drives is set to 3 hours, so I don't think that's it. All VPNs or extra LAN connections are off afaik. But turning off my network connection, that's a possibility. I found the 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' option under Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Ethernet -> Properties -> Configure -> Power Management tab. Now, I tried this both allowing the computer to idle (dropped off) and while typing this very message (also dropped off). So it's not that particular setting. Also IPv6 is enabled in the Ethernet Properties. This is crazy, why doesn't this work out of the box!? Everything else did.

Google Chrome Canary is seemingly fixing a lot of people's issues.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html

zcace said:
Again let's keep in mind that the CC works perfectly fine from every other device. Been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix through my phone and it goes for hours and hours without a hitch.
With that said you're on to something with the sleep idea. My sleep for displays is set to 2 hours, and my hard drives is set to 3 hours, so I don't think that's it. All VPNs or extra LAN connections are off afaik. But turning off my network connection, that's a possibility. I found the 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' option under Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Ethernet -> Properties -> Configure -> Power Management tab. Now, I tried this both allowing the computer to idle (dropped off) and while typing this very message (also dropped off). So it's not that particular setting. Also IPv6 is enabled in the Ethernet Properties. This is crazy, why doesn't this work out of the box!? Everything else did.
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Hmm, can't find it but I remember running across a mention of Chromecast discovery not working properly in some cases when there were multiple network interfaces installed (regardless of whether they're active). Windows also has some trouble with the network filter driver layer if there are two many filters installed (again, VPN adapters and firewalls).
Actually... maybe I'm overthinking things as I often do...
It's just that particular computer, right?
Can you try disabling all other Chrome extensions? I recall someone else ran into a conflict with another Chrome extension.

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Hmm, can't find it but I remember running across a mention of Chromecast discovery not working properly in some cases when there were multiple network interfaces installed (regardless of whether they're active). Windows also has some trouble with the network filter driver layer if there are two many filters installed (again, VPN adapters and firewalls).
Actually... maybe I'm overthinking things as I often do...
It's just that particular computer, right?
Can you try disabling all other Chrome extensions? I recall someone else ran into a conflict with another Chrome extension.
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Indeed, only this computer has any issues. I tried turning off all chrome extensions, still no dice. I am sure there is one singular obscure setting somewhere we are missing. Or maybe its like 'mattykinsx' said, it's a Chrome issue?

zcace said:
Indeed, only this computer has any issues. I tried turning off all chrome extensions, still no dice. I am sure there is one singular obscure setting somewhere we are missing. Or maybe its like 'mattykinsx' said, it's a Chrome issue?
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Quite possible it's a Chrome thing.
Perhaps create a System Restore point (or otherwise back up your current instance) and try the newfangled thing.

bhiga said:
Quite possible it's a Chrome thing.
Perhaps create a System Restore point (or otherwise back up your current instance) and try the newfangled thing.
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I take it back. Downloaded Chrome Canary, installed only Google Cast, still drops connection after a couple of minutes.

zcace said:
I take it back. Downloaded Chrome Canary, installed only Google Cast, still drops connection after a couple of minutes.
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Your Network location is set to Home or Work, yes?
Can you post a shot of the Advanced tab of your network interface's properties from Device Manager?
(Alt-PrtScn will capture the active window, or you can use the Snipping Tool)

bhiga said:
Your Network location is set to Home or Work, yes?
Can you post a shot of the Advanced tab of your network interface's properties from Device Manager?
(Alt-PrtScn will capture the active window, or you can use the Snipping Tool)
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What are we trying to glean from this?

NETFLIX: We're having trouble playing this title right now...

I'm living in Panama City, so I'm natively in the Mexico Netflix region. On my apple TV I'm using unblock-us to change regions. Obviously for chromecast I've removed all DNS settings from my S3, TF700 and MBP. I can watch Netflix fine on all three devices. On Chromecast I only get a few minutes, maybe 5, before I get "We're having trouble playing this title right now. Please try again later or select a different title."
This happens with all my devices. Netflix plays fine on those devices.
Google Play Movies plays perfect, Youtube has no problems.
Looking at internet traffic as the message appears, I dont see a drop in traffic at all. However in recent weeks, watching Hulu on our apple tv can sometimes take 20 minutes longer thanks to lots of pauses.
I purchased this so I didnt have to keep moving my ATV up and down stairs. I like that it's cheap, I like using a phone or chrome to control it - but I wonder if Google ever plan to add manual IP settings. How much will they add to it in the future?
I'm very tech savy, have been in IT for 13 years. The cable modem and router I have are completely foreign to me, I dont know the username and password to login and even look at the firmware. All I know is it's a motorola something. But I did miss the window for rooting it and I was thinking if I could roll the firmware back to allow rooting, but I doubt it.
Anyone have any suggesting?

If Netflix is working on other devices I would suspect your Chromecast is not getting a good/stable WiFi signal.
Use the HDMI extender, try a different (side/front) HDMI port if your TV has one and make sure it has line-of-sight to your router with as few obstructions as possible.

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If Netflix is working on other devices I would suspect your Chromecast is not getting a good/stable WiFi signal.
Use the HDMI extender, try a different (side/front) HDMI port if your TV has one and make sure it has line-of-sight to your router with as few obstructions as possible.
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Sadly this doesnt work either Why would the unstable wifi signal be problem with Netflix and not Google Play? Better connection to Google's own servers?
I tried this and still no luck :crying:

FL00DY said:
Sadly this doesnt work either Why would the unstable wifi signal be problem with Netflix and not Google Play? Better connection to Google's own servers?
I tried this and still no luck :crying:
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Differences in encoding rate can make one service work while another has problems, so really depends.
Has Netflix on Chromecast ever worked okay in this configuration?

bhiga said:
Differences in encoding rate can make one service work while another has problems, so really depends.
Has Netflix on Chromecast ever worked okay in this configuration?
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Nope, I'm yet to finish a program without interruption, I keep switching to my ATV after the 4-5 attempt.
My wife is a apple faithful, I cant show her my new google toy and have it not work 100%. Netflix works fine most of the time on the ATV, maybe a few times the video freezes and the audio keeps playing. I think maybe the ATV handles the little dropouts better, Hulu will pause for 10-15 seconds and keep playing.
Speedtest only records 4.5-5Mb

I think I know what your problem is since I've encountered it myself.
You're using a different dns configuration to watch Netflix from a different region, let's take the USA as an example. When you configure the unblock-us setting into your router or your mobile devices they'll work and play the USA Netflix content just fine. But these settings will never work for the chromecast since it will always use google's dns which is 8.8.8.8. Or 8.8.4.4 since this is baked into the chromecast and cannot be changed.
Once you start streaming us based Netflix content to your chromecast... It's going to see that that content is not available in your region and it'll time out and show you the message you've mentioned.
The only way around this is to root your chromecast which is now impossible if you haven't already done so, or you have to have a dd-wrt supported router. So you can reroute the google dns to the unblock-us dns.
Sent from the dark side of the moon

scandalousk said:
The only way around this is to root your chromecast which is now impossible if you haven't already done so, or you have to have a dd-wrt supported router. So you can reroute the google dns to the unblock-us dns.
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Root and iptables (which is supported by open/hacked router firmwares other than DD-WRT as well) are not the only ways:
You can also try adding a static route to an unresponsive local address
Or if your router supports blocking access to specific IPs, you can block 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Depending on your router one or both may work.
If Chromecast times out in trying to reach Google DNS, it will fall back to the DHCP-supplied DNS.
It has to try and fail timeout, rather than get immediately refused though. Immediate refusal will make it nag about not being able to reach the Internet.

bhiga said:
Root and iptables (which is supported by open/hacked router firmwares other than DD-WRT as well) are not the only ways:
You can also try adding a static route to an unresponsive local address
Or if your router supports blocking access to specific IPs, you can block 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Depending on your router one or both may work.
If Chromecast times out in trying to reach Google DNS, it will fall back to the DHCP-supplied DNS.
It has to try and fail timeout, rather than get immediately refused though. Immediate refusal will make it nag about not being able to reach the Internet.
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Correct. Silly of me to not even mention this since this is the method I use lol. Thanks for pointing it out mate!
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scandalousk said:
Correct. Silly of me to not even mention this since this is the method I use lol. Thanks for pointing it out mate!
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There are so many little details, even I forget from time to time. Just wanted to make sure people didn't think it's hopeless, at least not on the DNS front.

scandalousk said:
I think I know what your problem is since I've encountered it myself.
You're using a different dns configuration to watch Netflix from a different region, let's take the USA as an example. When you configure the unblock-us setting into your router or your mobile devices they'll work and play the USA Netflix content just fine. But these settings will never work for the chromecast since it will always use google's dns which is 8.8.8.8. Or 8.8.4.4 since this is baked into the chromecast and cannot be changed.
Once you start streaming us based Netflix content to your chromecast... It's going to see that that content is not available in your region and it'll time out and show you the message you've mentioned.
The only way around this is to root your chromecast which is now impossible if you haven't already done so, or you have to have a dd-wrt supported router. So you can reroute the google dns to the unblock-us dns.
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scandalousk thanks for the advice. However like I said, I'm not running any unblock-us service on my devices or routers. It's running on my ATV but it was switched off while I was trying all this...
Any method that means changing my Router config is useless as it was equipment provided by the cable company in Panama and while I can hide my device from my wife, I cant very well hide a new router. I dont know the username and password to even checkout the firmware and features. When I google the part numbers and model numbers I'm lucky to get 3-4 search results.

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scandalousk thanks for the advice. However like I said, I'm not running any unblock-us service on my devices or routers. It's running on my ATV but it was switched off while I was trying all this...
Any method that means changing my Router config is useless as it was equipment provided by the cable company in Panama and while I can hide my device from my wife, I cant very well hide a new router. I dont know the username and password to even checkout the firmware and features. When I google the part numbers and model numbers I'm lucky to get 3-4 search results.
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Why would you need to hide it from your wife?
If your Chromecast is unrooted, the *only* ways to view out of region content are by modification of the router. If necessary you could add a second more customizable router on top of the cable company's equipment, and use that network for all your casting needs.
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Same problem here
Living in Panama City, same problems as OP, the difference is that it used to work when I first got it. I'm on build 16664 with no VPN or anything else to change regions. Netflix works fine on PS3, nexus 5, nexus 7, windows PC, Ouya, 3DS and Macbook. I've tried reseting the CC (holding button, and through the android app) and reinstalling the Netflix apps on my android devices (even though I knew that wasn't the problem since I can't cast from my PC either). Any ideas on router configuration we could try?

Chromecast not seen on network since 16664 update

Since my Chromecast updated to 16664 (official) last week, I have had a bear of a time having any device see the Chromecast. Prior to the upgrade, I didn't have any issues with connectivity. Now the only way I can get the device to work is to do a reset to defaults and go through the setup procedure. The CC will generally work until the next power-up, then the same thing.
When this happens, the ChromeCast's home screen indicates it's connected to my WiFi network, however no Chromecast enabled program, including the Chromecast app on my phone, sees the device.
There have been no changes to my wireless network settings since it worked last. Given that I've not seen anyone else post about this, I must be the only one seeing the problem. Anyone?

I've seen some similar reports over at Plex but not here...
I myself am on 16664 and have no issues seeing my device.
try a Factory reset and see if reconnecting helps at all.

I've had a similar experience. My Galaxy SII and Galaxy tab 3 can see my Chromecast, but when I run the Chromecast app from my Kindle Fire HD, I get the message "No Chromecasts found on <network>". If I do a factory reset on the Chromecast, then the KFHD will find it, but once it's setup, I won't find it again. For me, the solution was to unplug my TiVo Premiere and TiVo Roamio from my network. Then the KFHD can find and cast to the Chromecast. But if either TiVo is connected to my network, the KFHD can't find the Chromecast. It's weird that this only affects the KFHD and not my other android devices.

SFDave said:
I've had a similar experience. My Galaxy SII and Galaxy tab 3 can see my Chromecast, but when I run the Chromecast app from my Kindle Fire HD, I get the message "No Chromecasts found on <network>". If I do a factory reset on the Chromecast, then the KFHD will find it, but once it's setup, I won't find it again. For me, the solution was to unplug my TiVo Premiere and TiVo Roamio from my network. Then the KFHD can find and cast to the Chromecast. But if either TiVo is connected to my network, the KFHD can't find the Chromecast. It's weird that this only affects the KFHD and not my other android devices.
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TiVos use mDNS advertising for their services.
Recent Chromecast firmware also seems to be using mDNS as well.
Try running Bonjour Browser and see if Chromecast is visible before/after reset or reboot.

Not sure if related but it may help.
My router has 2 channels, 2.4ghz and 5ghz, the chromecast is connected to the 2.4ghz of course, the issue is when another device is also using the 2.4ghz it wont see the chromecast for some strange reason, the second I connect that device to the 5ghz network it will see it and everything will work flawlessly.

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Not sure if related but it may help.
My router has 2 channels, 2.4ghz and 5ghz, the chromecast is connected to the 2.4ghz of course, the issue is when another device is also using the 2.4ghz it wont see the chromecast for some strange reason, the second I connect that device to the 5ghz network it will see it and everything will work flawlessly.
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If your router has a WMM option, try toggling it - on some routers WMM implementation is broken and makes things worse when it tries to kick in and make your media streaming better.
Also, if you're streaming local content from another wireless device you may be exceeding the available bandwidth on the band - see WiFi Bandwidth and Router Considerations for diagrams on how the bandwidth usage can multiply depending on how content is being accessed.

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If your router has a WMM option, try toggling it - on some routers WMM implementation is broken and makes things worse when it tries to kick in and make your media streaming better.
Also, if you're streaming local content from another wireless device you may be exceeding the available bandwidth on the band - see WiFi Bandwidth and Router Considerations for diagrams on how the bandwidth usage can multiply depending on how content is being accessed.
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Streaming is fine (using plex with pc as dlna) it's just a weird issue that used to happen, haven't noticed it in a while because our phones always connects to the 5ghz network. WMM is on so if it happens again I'll try playing it.
Also I doubt I'm even getting close to the wireless bandwidth cap.
Thanks for your reply tho!

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Streaming is fine (using plex with pc as dlna) it's just a weird issue that used to happen, haven't noticed it in a while because our phones always connects to the 5ghz network. WMM is on so if it happens again I'll try playing it.
Also I doubt I'm even getting close to the wireless bandwidth cap.
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Weird... Might also be a more general network thing like a rogue device with a static IP causing a collision that Chromecast doesn't gracefully recover from, or a multi-interfaced device causing some kind of loop
But yeah, since you have 5 GHz, best to use that and keep your 2.4 GHz usage to a minimum to maximize available bandwidth for Chromecast..

Let me try a few of the suggestions here. I've not had any luck using 2.4 or 5GHz bands on my network...behavior is the same. Also, my router is an ASUS router with Merlin firmware. There is a new thread I've only glanced over, but I'll try some of the things there as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2599515
I had to do the factory reset trick again last night so we could watch video on the Chromecast...it obviously hasn't gotten annoying to the point where I'm stopping all other activity until I get it fixed, though. Strange this only started happening after the Chromecast update, but I can no longer remember the sequence of events that go me here (chromecast update, router update, wireless AP added for better wireless coverage, etc).

I've seen similar behavior when there are just too many devices connected to the WiFi at once.
My router maxes out at around 9-10 devices...
Doesn't matter which band they are on either.
But to be sure it isn't an IP conflict I suggest setting DHCP reservations for all your regularly connecting devices to ensure they never get a different IP (especially important to do for servers like Plex) and remove that possibility from the equation.
Just to Add I believe the new 802.11AC Standards solve this problem, But you will need to buy a new router to get it.

Using a bonjour browser, I can see the entry for the Chromecast :
_googlecast._tcp.local.
Bedroom.local.:8009
/192.168.254.193
st = 0
ve = 02
md = Chromecast
ic = /setup/icon.png
id = [a very long number]
fn = Bedroom
ca = 5
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I'm running the browser that sees that from a Samsung tablet, which is also running the Chromecast setup app that says it can't find the Chromecast.
EDIT: I've tried the factory default recovery method a number of times now. I see the bonjour record go away, then come back after the setup app says I'm ready to cast. All apps can see the Chromecast at that time, then after 3 to 5 minutes, they no longer see the Chromecast. I don't see any difference in the bonjour record when it working from when it's not working.

troycarpenter said:
Using a bonjour browser, I can see the entry for the Chromecast :
I'm running the browser that sees that from a Samsung tablet, which is also running the Chromecast setup app that says it can't find the Chromecast.
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Just a longshot....But do you have any security software that could be blocking some Apps from communicating with the Network?
It sounds an awful lot like what happens when an AntiVirus Application Monitor has denied access.

Hmm, No, I don't think so.
But I found something interesting. My laptop CAN see the Chromecast, and I can cast Chrome tabs just fine. So far it's only the Android devices that can't see the Chromecast (and at the same time the laptop can). I'm looking for my iPad (I don't use it enough to keep track of it as close as I should) to see if it sees the Chromecast or not.

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Hmm, No, I don't think so.
But I found something interesting. My laptop CAN see the Chromecast, and I can cast Chrome tabs just fine. So far it's only the Android devices that can't see the Chromecast (and at the same time the laptop can).
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That's really odd. Your network has only the ASUS router for wireless, no repeaters or extenders?
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That's really odd. Your network has only the ASUS router for wireless, no repeaters or extenders?
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I do have an extender (not a wireless repeater) in place, but it didn't make any difference before the latest Chromecast update. My next step is to try removing the extender, but I don't know if the Chromecast will see the signal coming from the other side of the house (the reason the extender was put in to begin with).

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I do have an extender (not a wireless repeater) in place, but it didn't make any difference before the latest Chromecast update. My next step is to try removing the extender, but I don't know if the Chromecast will see the signal coming from the other side of the house (the reason the extender was put in to begin with).
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It's quite possible that the update changed something about the WiFi connection that your network simply does not like. People have noted similar "introduced issues" with HDMI before. Definitely submit a report with them if you haven't already, and request that updates NOT be forced to avoid issues like this. Being able to dismiss, postpone or even roll back an update would prevent this type of thing.
If it's not the build, I'm not sure what else it might be, unless your router has somehow quarantined your other Android devices on another band or SSID somehow.

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It's quite possible that the update changed something about the WiFi connection that your network simply does not like. People have noted similar "introduced issues" with HDMI before. Definitely submit a report with them if you haven't already, and request that updates NOT be forced to avoid issues like this. Being able to dismiss, postpone or even roll back an update would prevent this type of thing.
If it's not the build, I'm not sure what else it might be, unless your router has somehow quarantined your other Android devices on another band or SSID somehow.
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Looks like I switched off TKIP and just went AES on that network at some time. I went back and turned on AES+TKIP and now the Chromecast shows up on my mobile devices again. I'll keep an eye out in case that theory doesn't hold out.