Problem solved. I found a comment on a user forum that was explaining the same problem I was experiencing. The solution presented there was to replace the USB cable powering the Chromecast device. I did that and have been casing video from my laptop and phone for over 6 hours straight without one drop. The USB cable that I replaced was the one that came with Chromecast. I love the simple fix we most often overlook. Hope this helps others.
I had this issue too.
Turns out it had nothing to do with wifi signal or a dodgy power cable
(neither of which make sense to me:
)
- dodgy power cable would probably manifest itself by the device rebooting randomly
- most people have a decent wifi signal strength - otherwise you'd use a wired connection.
I had to disable the DHCP service on my router - then all was fine.
This makes some amount of sense: if something is going wrong when the chromecast asks for a network address (or indeed goes partially wrong), then you could expect the device to not be "visible" on the network even though it may think it's doing ok.... hope this helps someone. :-*
I had this issue too.
Turns out it had nothing to do with wifi signal or a dodgy power cable
(neither of which make sense to me:
)
- dodgy power cable would probably manifest itself by the device rebooting randomly
- most people have a decent wifi signal strength - otherwise you'd use a wired connection.
I had to disable the DHCP service on my router - then all was fine.
This makes some amount of sense: if something is going wrong when the chromecast asks for a network address (or indeed goes partially wrong), then you could expect the device to not be "visible" on the network even though it may think it's doing ok.... hope this helps someone. :-*
I have no doubt that the problem was resolved, but I am unsure about disabling DHCP.
Did you assign static IPs?
If he really disabled DHCP, he must have. It would be interesting to see what would happen if he left DHCP enabled but just reserved a ip for the CC in the dhcp config.
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I have no doubt that the problem was resolved, but I am unsure about disabling DHCP.
Did you assign static IPs?
Dan
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My chromecast works great for a while, but after a few days, or even a week or two, it starts to flake out. The cast icon disappears from my all my devices, and on the screen it shows that it's disconnected, or sometimes it starts cycling in a loop of "disconnected, attempting to reconnect" and never actually gets a solid connection until I power cycle it. It seems to be getting hung up at obtaining an IP address, so I was already considering assigning a static reservation. As soon as I did that, the chromecast started working without a reboot. Too early to tell for sure if that fixed it, but figured I'd throw in my two cents. I'll try to remember to report back in a couple weeks if this fixed it for good.
If he really disabled DHCP, he must have. It would be interesting to see what would happen if he left DHCP enabled but just reserved a ip for the CC in the dhcp config.
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Maybe something in one of those will be of help. It seems at least a few people with similar issues found this to be the fix: