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How to Activate your Roku

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How to Activate your Roku

The Roku boxes are designed by the Roku Company mainly to watch movies offered by the Netflix streaming service. Once the box is connected to the television, it only needs to be activated to start watching movies instantly. If you need to activate your Roku box, you can do it with a few simple steps.

Activation Steps For Roku

These steps given below are the same steps with which you can activate your Roku device in less than Fifteen minutes.

  • Connect the Roku box to your television following the procedure indicated in the Roku manual.
  • Turn on your TV and select the input channel for the Roku box. Once you see the Roku welcome screen, press the "Select" button on the Roku remote control.
  • Select the type of connection you have (wired or wireless) on the network screen and provide the necessary information about your network. Once the connection is established, you should see the activation screen at Roku.com link with an activation code. Use this code and execute further steps.
  • Visit the Netflix activation site on your computer (www.netflix.com/activate) and log in to your account if requested. Enter the activation code on your television in the text box of the activation page. With this, your Roku box will be activated.
  • To activate your Roku, or other streaming devices it is not necessary to pay a third party. With the guide and the steps indicated here, you can do the activation yourself without paying monthly payments to third parties and having full control of your device. 

Using Roku Outside US

The Roku, Amazon Fire and other streaming boxes do not work outside the US or England. If you activate it outside you will be restricted much content such as Netflix, Amazon prime, crackle, etc. In order to activate it, you must hard reset the device, delete your Roku account, and start from scratch by following these steps, in case you have already activated the device and cannot see content such as Netflix. If it's the first time, just follow the steps we detail.

These steps apply equally to the Amazon Fire TV only that the account to create would be Amazon and not Roku.

The steps are the following:

1. Configure the DNS to your Wi-Fi router and you make sure that you complete all the tests that certify this all well programmed.

2. Block the Google DNS that comes on the Roku hardware on your Wi-Fi router. The routes to block are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. The way to block them depends on the make and model of your Wi-Fi router (your own).

3. Make your new account at my.roku.com (only for the Roku).

4. You put your billing address or charge of your credit card as a valid address in the US. Also, with your current address. If your credit card does not work for you, you can do it with PayPal as long as you set PayPal's primary address to the same valid US address you used when creating your Roku account.

5. Now you have to connect your Roku and execute the process of Activation for Roku by following the steps indicated as entering the code in your owner account my.roku.com.

All this you do with the DNS configured to the USA and your Gmail account (if it is the case) configured to the USA. Once you finish installing the channels and everything goes OK, you can change to the regions you like. It is recommended that you do everything from your computer and via Wi-Fi to verify that everything is working well.

So now you are done with the configuration, you can start streaming your favorite content with Roku media player.

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