Micro-USB Ethernet Adapter for Amazon Fire TV Devices

This adapter works perfectly and is extremely easy to install. It delivers smooth stable streaming to my busiest HDTV and taken a significant load off of my wifi - which has completely stabilized everything that remains on the wifi. A bit of context - i recently "cut the cable" and went to wifi-only. I have 100mb internet service and a centrally located wifi unit in my home that for years has easily supported roughly 10 active devices at any given time. That may sound like a lot, but you take a couple smart phones, a couple laptops, smart thermostats, a couple Echo devices, and throw in a few smart plugs, e-readers, and so forth and you can get past 10 pretty fast. When i finally "cut the cable" i added two streaming TVs to that load, each TV at opposite ends of the house where the wifi signal was good but not great. Each TV worked fine individually, but if my wife and i were using both tv's at the same time, the picture quality would degrade and within minutes the wifi would collapse and kick everything off the network. Fortunately, my home also has ethernet wiring with connections near the wifi as well as near our most heavily used tv. I was able to use the existing wiring and the Amazon Ethernet Adapter to connect the main tv directly to the LAN port on the router/modem and therefore remove all of that traffic from the wifi. The results have been a clear stable picture on the main tv, with no issues on any of the other devices (including the other TV) that continue to use the wifi - no matter how many are in use at the same time. There are alot of questions/concerns raised here and in other forums as to whether this (and other) ethernet adapters are faster than wifi and you will find alot of videos showing comparative tests. My view is they are missing the point - an HDTV requires at most a 10-15mb of speed to support high quality streaming on one device and this ethernet adapter EASILY supports much more than that via your wired connection to your router/modem (unless your router is in a different zip code). The REAL benefit is that the connection is far more stable - particularly if you have a bit of distance between your wifi unit and your streaming device as i did, and if said wifi unit is pretty busy talking to other devices as mine was. Using the ethernet adapter to remove the traffic of one busy tv from my wifi has solved all of the issues - and for alot less money than adding additional gizmos to spread more wifi all over my house.

I had installed Fire TV stick in my basement tv and it was stuttering due to poor wifi signal. Purchased this adapter and made wired internet connection with stick and its working like charm. Its a small device and packs a punch considering what it can to to your fire tv stick. My stick power adapter worked perfectly with it. Happy with my purchase.

Works exactly as advertised. No more WiFi issues, IF you have any. I think wired is more secure.

Edit Update 20211118: Could be 5stars but reduced back to 4 as the latest interface has some major issues. So the issues with the Ethernet Adapter were fixed about 6 months ago, as the 2nd Gen Firestick had worked well with the Ethernet Adapter since then. However, there are occasional glitches, so I ran tests and keep a background internet speed app running at all times. It appears some Apps just have their own issues and the device itself is working well with the Firestick in the most distant bedroom. So this would raise the device itself to Five stars. However, the 2021 November Firestick interface revision has many issues. While conceptually good, (after the learning curve,) it has definitely got major bugs EVEN AFTER last night's Bug Fix update. 1) The App Image displays from ALL SELECTIONS and even the ads at the top of the screen, are ALL BLANK after turning off the TV while in the menu, when turning the TV back on if one doesn't put the Firestick in sleep mode. The only way to recover is REBOOT Firestick! IS IT A MEMORY ISSUE DUE TO INCREASED REQUIREMENTS WITHOUT NOTIFYING USERS OF THE NEW REQUIREMENT AND TELLING US TO MAKE MORE SPACE OR SOME OTHER BUG?? 2) Same missing App Image Displays, but this is intermittent. It occurs after using an App, whether it be a game or streaming service. Same fix via Firestick REBOOT. 3) BLUETOOTH connection takes longer and instead of auto connect with installed devices, intermittently I now must manually choose my device and select it multiple times, when I want to use my headphones or other devices that used to connect automatically without an issue. 4) AMAZON CHANNELS interface for Paramount+ is horrible. I will discontinue using this App under Amazon, as I only tried it this way for the IMDB and information about the people involved. However, the IMDB is extremely limited. It isn't worth losing access to a much better interface in the full PARAMOUNT+ App. Don't know if this related to the new interface or something else, but it is worth noting. I must use ALEXA to find half the programs now! Because of the bugs, reduced down to 4 stars. Edit Update: As of the latest Amazon Firestick TV operating system upgrade with the "Live" TV category, I decided to retest my 2nd Gen Firestick with the Amazon Ethernet adaptor. It now appeared as connected by Ethernet when I plugged it inline, connected the Ethernet cable, and restarted the Firestick. It still didn't work 100% of the time, even with the shorter original power cable, but now the issue seemed to be strictly "internet connectivity" when it failed, as opposed to not being seen as a device. The issue there is that you must disconnect the Ethernet cable for the Firestick to allow choosing a Wi-Fi network when the Ethernet fails to connect. Both connections go through the same router network, so I believe there is still some issue with the adapter, or I got a lemon. I'll try it on a 3rd generation Firestick (all 1080P versions) soon. Hope this review is helpful! ===================Original Review=========================== I live in an apartment complex with far too many competing signals on 2.4 & 5mhz. I run Ethernet 10/100/1000 switches and Cat6 or better cables everywhere. This Amazon Ethernet Adapter device was NEVER recognized by my Amazon 2nd Gen Alexa Fire Stick!! The port lit up as 10/100 on my switch to witch the Amazon Ethernet Adapter was connected. It did pass through the power to my Fire Stick. However, no matter how many times I restarted or cold booted the Adapter & Fire Stick in varying sequences, the Fire Stick have no indication of Wired Ethernet Connection, always indicating the "Wireless" networks only!! I even tried alternate Ethernet Switch ports, alternate cables (including Cat5,) and rebooting my entire network...nothing worked. The port would light up for the port of the cable to the Amazon Ethernet Adapter, but never blink to indicate data passing through the port either. So which is defective: The Amazon Ethernet Adapter, the Amazon 2nd gen Alexa Fire Stick, or Amazon's driver/OS software for their devices?? As the Amazon 2nd gen Alexa Fire Stick has had multiple upgrades from Amazon to its OS (operating system) since buying it AND the Amazon Ethernet Adapter, I will rule out the driver/OS as the suspected problem. That only leaves one of the pieces of hardware from Amazon. In the mean time, I moved my Fire Stick with an HDMI extension cable, then put it back at the TV after later moving my household Wi-Fi broadcast location to an Access Point, so the Wi-Fi is working relatively well. We do still enjoy using the Amazon 2nd Gen Alexa Fire Stick for most of our HE streaming, and my kids still use the older 1st gen Fire Stick (though I replaced that remote once....kids will be kids and "accidentally" break stuff. LOL). I recommend a Wi-Fi repeater, Access Point, or simply upgrade your Router, as opposed to wasting money and even more valuable: Your TIME! Do not purchase this untrustworthy piece of technology: The Amazon Ethernet Adapter. 👎

First to the naysayers: You may very well have clean gig fiber running into your home from the street and then directly into the back of your router. You can easily be getting solid 800+ ups and downs from your gig service with the handy-dandy internet speed tests, et. al. That’s great and works very well on computer data but TV is different. Your TV will not gobble up every scrap of bandwidth you throw its way like your desktop. You can have 10GB and it won’t make any difference. Your TV will essentially only consume ONLY WHAT IT IS CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING based on its resolution capacity and nothing more. It’s quite polite, actually, and not a data hog. WHAT YOU DO GAIN with this ethernet adapter in a potentially very big way is the chance to decompress your remaining wifi load at the router by giving back wireless bandwidth as you throw TV traffic to ethernet. As an off-the-wall example, you may have 20 or so wireless devices in your house. If you put in some good cat6 ethernet cable and hardware three or four TVs that USED TO BE on your wireless system then you have very easily given the remaining devices more bandwidth to use. The Firestick now connected by ethernet will work the same as it did on wireless (maybe better, more reliably, more stable) than it did over wireless. It will not run faster. The real advantage from my 40-year computer perspective is the bandwidth SAVINGS for the OTHER devices. The TV is gonna do what it’s gonna do at its prescribed resolution. Period. The computer in the bedroom office is a whole other matter. I popped in three of these adapters today without narry a hiccup and I think I heard a faint sigh of relief from the wifi side of my router! Ha! This adapter will actually help the other stuff in the house more than it will help the TV. Did I already mention the TV is gonna do what it’s gonna do? Hum, yea, I believe I did. I am ABSOLUTELY HAPPY with this adapter. You just have to realize what it will and will not do. Mine are staying right here feeding three Firesticks. My wireless security cameras are happy, too. Nice simple rig doing a good job. And realize you probably do not need the power adapter block that came with your Firestick…. Simply plug the USB power cable into an open USB port on the TV. It will run your stick just fine without yet another plug-in.

Faster speeds though an ethernet cable than WiFi with latency issues and interference with the WiFi signals. Since I added this to my Amazon Fire Stick, I no longer have latency and sinal problems from WiFi. The Fir Stick downloads are fast and non-eventful. I'm glad I got this for my Fire Stick as it works well.

Excelente producto.

Recently purchased both the 'Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max' and 'Amazon Fire TV Stick HD' and needed an ethernet adapter since I never use WiFi. This adapter works fine with the 4K Max stick but it lacks a few features offered by the 'TV xStream USB Ethernet Adapter', which I use with the Fire Stick HD. The xStream brand adapter has a much longer cable connecting it to the Firestick and also has an LED indicator LED lamp to show ethernet connectivity. The Amazon-brand adapter has an annoyingly short cord and no led. I'll keep and use both adapters since they both work fine but the xStream is a better design.