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Anyone else having issues with Netflix on their Wii U's? I always have to re-download it as it seems to NEVER load. I can try starting Netflix, but all I get is a blank screen and forced to hard reset my Wii U. Then remove it from the system and re-download. It has been happening since... two updates ago? Which ever one was the one that sped up the load times.

So yeah, anyone else getting this issue as well?
 

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Weird, Netflix works fine on my Wii-U's and my Wii's... (yes multiple of each.)

Maybe you should run a speed test on your connection and try rebooting your router?
 

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Yep, I've been having issues with it for months with the same terrible 'solution'--if you Google around, we're not alone.

(Amazon Prime, etc., works great, tho.)
 

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Yep, I've been having issues with it for months with the same terrible 'solution'--if you Google around, we're not alone.

(Amazon Prime, etc., works great, tho.)


Some ISP's throttle Netflix, or torrents... Netflix works fine on my connection but when I tried to download a torrent file of any kind my speed would drop to something like 300K a second... I replaced my modem and router with one from Newegg and now Netflix works fine as usual but now I can torrent at 1.2MBs while having 2 streams from Netflix hitting my network at the same time.
 

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The issue isn't the service it self. On my tablet, my phone, my computer, my 3DS, all of those run their respective Netflix apps just fine (well, with a little bit of fiddling from time to time on the 3DS one), just not the Wii U.
 

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The issue isn't the service it self. On my tablet, my phone, my computer, my 3DS, all of those run their respective Netflix apps just fine (well, with a little bit of fiddling from time to time on the 3DS one), just not the Wii U.

Yeah, same here: I can run Netflix off of two different tablets, a phone, PSV, 3DS, PS3, notebook and Roku fine, so it's something with the app--or one of the fw updates broke it.
 

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Never had issues with Netflix but I stopped using it because my sound system doesn't support the Wii U surround output.
 

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I have the same problem but there's an easy work-around. Open up a game or an other piece of software such as Miiverse and then start up Netflix, it'll load up just fine.
 

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I've seen that there was an update to the Wii U Netflix app. I wonder if it fixed the issue...
 

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