Amazon Fire Stick Not Connecting to Hotel WiFi or a Hotspot: Share a Laptop Connection

Fix the Fire Stick Can’t Connect to WiFi Issue in 3 Minutes or Less

The Amazon Fire TV Stick is a great travel companion: plug it into a TV and watch Prime Video, Netflix or YouTube, with Alexa built in. Until you try it on hotel WiFi. Hotel networks make you sign in on a web page, and the Fire Stick often can’t get past that page. On top of that, you have to set it up again on every new WiFi network.

The fix: sign in on your laptop and share its connection with the Fire Stick. Download Connectify Hotspot free and read on.

Casting and device discovery

Chromecast, Roku or AirPlay can't see your phone? Use Connectify Hotspot to put casting devices on the same network

Casting works by one device finding another on the same network. Connectify Hotspot in its default mode puts the phone and the streaming device on two different networks, so the search finds nothing.

CONNECTIFY HOTSPOT: DEFAULT NETWORK A Phone NETWORK B Smart TV NO DISCOVERY Nothing to cast to CONNECTIFY HOTSPOT: BRIDGED ONE NETWORK Phone Smart TV DISCOVERY WORKS The cast icon appears

Chromecast, AirPlay and most smart home apps look for hardware by broadcasting a request across the local network and waiting for a reply. That request does not cross between networks, so a phone on the hotspot and a streaming device on the router never hear each other.

Connectify Hotspot's Bridged mode (bridging) puts both devices on one network. Everything joining the hotspot gets an address from the router instead of from the Windows PC, which means the phone and the streaming device share the same network and the cast icon comes back.

MAX Bridged mode is a Connectify Hotspot MAX feature. It works when you share a Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection.

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Amazon Fire Stick Not Connecting to Public WiFi: Use Your Laptop as the Middleman

Connectify Hotspot for Windows lets you share your Windows laptop’s WiFi connection with your other devices. That helps whenever a public WiFi network needs a browser login that streaming devices and game consoles can’t do.

If your Amazon Fire Stick is not connecting to WiFi at home, first follow Amazon’s steps. If it won’t join a phone’s hotspot, restart the phone and the Fire Stick, check the phone’s hotspot is still on, then forget the network on the Fire Stick and join it again.

The first time, you connect the Fire TV Stick to your Connectify Hotspot by hand. After that, open your laptop and start the hotspot, and the Fire Stick reconnects to it on its own. It works the same in a different hotel every night.

3 Steps to Get Your Amazon Fire Stick Connected

  1. Set up your Fire Stick with your Connectify Hotspot at home. Because you only connect it once, do it before your trip. The Fire Stick remembers the hotspot name and password.
  2. Keep the same hotspot name and password. The Fire Stick recognizes your laptop by them. If you change either, you will need to set up the Fire Stick again.
  3. At the hotel, sign in on your laptop and start the hotspot. Connect your laptop to the hotel WiFi, sign in through the browser, then start Connectify Hotspot. The Fire Stick joins automatically.

New to Connectify Hotspot? Set it up in 5 steps:

  1. Download and install Connectify Hotspot on your 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC.
  2. Open it and choose Wi-Fi hotspot.
  3. Under Internet to share, pick the connection you want to share: Wi-Fi, Ethernet, a VPN or a phone plugged in with USB.
  4. Set a password. Turn on Block ads if you want lighter pages on every device.
  5. Click Start hotspot. Devices join by scanning the QR code on the Hotspot screen, or with the network name and password, like any other Wi-Fi network.

What Else Connectify Hotspot Does

Amazon Fire Stick not connecting to WiFi? Get Connectify Hotspot on your computer and connect your streaming device to it.

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Available for Windows 10 and 11