Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops
ChromeCast is such a frustrating product.  It does exactly what I want in theory.  In practice I have to wait 10 to 60 seconds to get it to connect, or reboot my phone.  I've started giving up and just using the computer attached to my TV.<p>I don't think I've been having the particular Wi-Fi issue described in the article, but ChromeCast has been just slow and flaky in my experience.  I've had both v1 and v2.  It seems to have problems with older phones, but that's not the only problem.<p>mDNS on Linux with Avahi doesn't seem particularly reliable either (e.g. pinging a Linux box from a Mac.)<p>Computers barely work :-(  I guess this is why Apple insists on owning the whole stack.  The compatibility matrix becomes tractable.