Streaming video isn’t supposed to be a frustrating process — until it is. For months, I blamed several culprits, including my ISP, my router placement, my video service, and even the weather outside. Additionally, I restarted the router more times than I can count, moved the useful Fire TV Stick around the cabinet, and canceled and re-subscribed to Prime Video to see if it made a difference. None of it did. My Fire TV Stick 4K would play fine for the first 10 minutes of a show, then the dreaded spinning wheel would appear right when things got good, usually at the least opportune moment. I’d pause, wait, unpause, and watch it happen again ten minutes later. Eventually, I stopped trusting the stick for anything I actually cared about watching. Turns out the fix was a cheap, five-minute setup, and it had nothing to do with any of the things I’d spent months blaming. Related The USB trick that bypasses your smart TV’s 100Mbps Ethernet limit A tiny hardware limitation is slowing your TV down, …