Chromecast hates 4G LTE?

[nickdalzell]

I can only get internet here in the woods one of two ways. 1) prohibitively expensive satellite internet, or from a Verizon Jetpack Mifi. I chose the latter. I also got a Chromecast to play my Play Movies content to my 32" Samsung Smart TV, which has everything except Google Play built-in. The device either freezes or goes into a rebuffer loop where it will play five seconds, pause for a minute, play five more seconds and pause again. Sometimes it dies at a black screen instead of connecting to the Movies app properly requiring a power cycle. All this on an otherwise stable 5mbps 4G LTE data connection

But...

If I switch the mifi to EVDO ONLY (3G) it works perfectly. Plays well and even at 1080p. What gives? Browsing the web and downloads through Play Store are dial-up like. Speed test shows a lousy 70kbps download and 1mbps upload and a horridly latent 500ms ping. But the Chromecast works fine. Switch to 4G again, everything else works but the Chromecast freezes and pauses again. I don't get it.

 

[Crashdamage]

You're using Verizon.

 

[nickdalzell]

So? i got decent bandwidth, and great stability over 4G but Chromecast dies with it. switch to dial-up speeds of 3G the Chromecast works fine. it's almost as if it cannot handle the speeds! i'm happy i can use it but constantly switching from 3G to 4G is a pain. i don't get why the slower speeds seem to make it work better but super fast 4G won't.

 

[Unforgiven]

I'm not sure if the problem lies within the Chromecast or with the Mifi device and Verizon. For now, I moved this to the Chromecast forum to see if other owners can shed light on it. If it is determined to be a VZW issue, we'll just move it over there.