New Amazon Fire TV Cube - wifi or ethernet?

[doopydug]

Considering upgrading my old firestick to one of these - is it better to use the ethernet adapter instead of wifi?

Many people have said that the firestick is designed with wifi in mind and works better but how about one of these?

 

[Simmz]

Ethernet will always be better on anything, but WiFi will be fine if you have a decent signal and fairly fast internet where it is being placed.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

What Simmz says, I have 5x fire devices in the house all on WiFi and all streaming perfectly.
I do have 390 mbps download though.

 

[turbot1984]

What Simmz says, I have 5x fire devices in the house all on WiFi and all streaming perfectly.
I do have 390 mbps download though.

Thats the reason! I get around 45mbps on wifi on top floor, 130mbps via powerline. Still ok ish though with Firestick.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

To be honest if all you want to do is stream just get a Firestick 4K, they are plenty good enough.
I added a new one this week that cost £22.93 from QVC of all places and I'm watching stuff on it now.

 

[maddness]

Considering upgrading my old firestick to one of these - is it better to use the ethernet adapter instead of wifi?

Many people have said that the firestick is designed with wifi in mind and works better but how about one of these?

have 2 of these, one on wifi and other on Ethernet (cables just there so why not) and no difference at all between the 2, I have a decent mesh setup, though tbh wifi is decent from these devices

 

[Vimes]

When we first bought the 2019 version of the Cube I noticed how much faster it was in terms of general use. You soon get used to that to. But it is nice. It seemed faster than the old Firestick and even faster than the 4k version. It also has 16GB of storage.
The 8GB of the Firestick works out around 5GB to use.
WiFi wise it is only the new Max version of the Firestick that supports WiFi 6, but still 8GB of storage.
I have read an odd post or two that suggest a new Cube could be out soon.
The 2019 Cube and the new Max use OS ver 7 rather than 6 found on the std 4k stick, iirc.
We tried the Cube on WiFi, very close to our main Asus RT AX88U router, and it seems better when we used a Gigabit ethernet dongle fitted. But that is limited by the USB 2 port on the Cube.
The new MAX supports WiFi 6 if your wireless network at home does.