Recently I moved house. I had to wait 6 weeks for the internet to be connected (first world problem). While I was waiting for the connection I inevitably tried

Recently I moved house. I had to wait 6 weeks for the internet to be connected (first world problem). While I was waiting for the connection I inevitably tried to fall back on local content and discovered, much to my discontent, that my Chromecast wouldn't work at all without internet, even when I was trying to play local content. I've been less happy with it ever since.