I Fixed My Annoyingly Slow Roku During a Commercial Break. Here’s How

If your Roku keeps buffering or freezes at the most dramatic moment of a show, let’s get one thing straight: It’s probably not broken — just neglected.

Before you dramatically declare it dead and start shopping for a new Roku, have you tried the ridiculously simple fixes? We’re talking about clearing the cache, forcing a software update or — and this is a big one — the ancient, all-powerful trick of unplugging it for a minute. And if your device is a few years old, it could also be time to…