![]() High bitrate content is notoriously difficult to play reliably over wireless links without investment in WiFi Access Points and their ilk. I had a gen1 firestick when launched and while I had no buffering during playback it was the 15 second delays while it filled enough of the cache over wifi everytime I navigated in high bitrate mkv films that made me upgrade to a wired solution. And that means the Firestick 4k should be plugged into your receiver not your TV which means a longish hdmi cable so you can locate the stick away from the wifi blocking metal box of the receiver. ![]() PS the issues with the Firestick 4K are symptoms of a poor wifi connection except for lossless audio being decoded to 7.1 lpcm, that's just an odd feature and means you need a receiver capable of handling it. If you like the improvement then an RF remote with a USB dongle would be an option. The manual has the key mapping, Google it. Here an easy way to do that: Go to Settings. ![]() Network tweaking works great and wifi bridge is doing good too. Raspbian (or Raspberry OS as its called now), I managed to get dvd, though not so stable. OSMC, network tweaking was not that easy,so I switched to Raspbian. Next, you need to find the IP address of your Kodi system. I also wanted to tweak networking to use the device as an additional wifi bridge, not successful. How to find the IP address of your Kodi system. Try plugging a USB keyboard in and you'll see a big improvement. Note the username and port, though the default values should be kodi and 8080 unless you already changed them in the past. Unless you mean the colourful mochi gui which is notably slower than the older blue gui the majority of the menu slowness is down to the fact the remote control is IR which limits the rate you can repeat key presses.
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