The 2025 Roku Streaming Stick Plus gives you an HDMI plug on one end and a USB-C port on the side. That is the whole list. Streaming sticks skip the Ethernet jack to stay small and cheap, and most buyers never miss it, though the omission stings if you spent a weekend pulling Cat6A through your own walls. Roku does support wired networking on its 2025 sticks, using that same USB-C port and an adapter that runs about $15. Nothing on the box mentions it. My office is the room where I stopped treating that as a curiosity, because wiring a TV instead of trusting Wi-Fi solves problems that no router upgrade touches.
The stick has one port, and it was never meant for networking
HDMI on one end, USB-C on the other
Roku includes a USB-A to USB-C cable in the box and no wall brick. The expectation is that you run it to the USB port on the back of the TV, tuck the stick behind the panel, and never think about it again. Most people do exactly that. Since the USB-C port is the only opening on the device, anything you add has to go through it.
My office sits behind double French doors. With the glass closed, speed tests on that side of the room fall to around 20 Mbps, which is enough for a video call and not much else. The rest of the house runs on Cat6A, and access points I placed myself, so watching a $40 stick crawl in a room with a network drop a few feet away is its own particular annoyance. I have fixed this kind of dead zone before in another room with a powerline adapter, but there was already copper in the wall here.
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