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[Shackeng]

I'm impressed with the Samsung I bought earlier this year. It is linked to the router via Solwise plugs and I can now watch all sorts of catch up TV, plus daughter gave us a Firestick, so we have all sorts of choices of something entertaining, instead of the reality dross that passes for TV entertainment these days.

[tunnie]

A Chromecast dongle is best way to make a TV smart, easily upgraded when new ones come along and it's nice and simple to use. 

[TD]

Tb ............

Since you only really can use 1 at a time, is there anything like a cat5 splitter out there if both items are quite close 
Lucky enough, mines at 98% so not a problem but I would prefer mine hard wired anyway 

Its called a network switch. I must have a spare somewhere, but seeing as Smart TVs are a waste of time, its not worth digging one out.

I carnt remember when I last played with the 'smart' part of my TV .... and seeing how I had to change my wifi router a few months back and I know I haven't reconfigured the tv to connect to it....just shows how much I bother with it!
In fact I haven't reconfigured the Humax freeview box I have either......that has features similar to 'smart' TV's as well!

[TheBoy]

A Chromecast dongle is best way to make a TV smart, easily upgraded when new ones come along and it's nice and simple to use. 

And being google inspired shite, needs updating on a weekly basis.

Plenty of other, cheaper, marginally more secure options available as well .  But as most TVs bought in the last 4 years are (alledgedly) smart anyway...

[TheBoy]

Just to add how bad Wifi can be here, this is not unusual in the evenings:

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=345ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=327ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.


That being my local router.


Bloody mongrels, the lot of them.

[tunnie]

A Chromecast dongle is best way to make a TV smart, easily upgraded when new ones come along and it's nice and simple to use. 

And being google inspired shite, needs updating on a weekly basis.

Plenty of other, cheaper, marginally more secure options available as well .  But as most TVs bought in the last 4 years are (alledgedly) smart anyway...

It's automatic? Seamless. Never seen mine update ever! Only our test office ones.

[TD]

Just to add how bad Wifi can be here, this is not unusual in the evenings:

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=345ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=327ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.


That being my local router.


Bloody mongrels, the lot of them.

I had a previous router set to US 'local' to get additional channels 

[Andy B]

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Being poor my TV still has valves, which take quite some time to warm up.

   

If only I was joking, Mr B..eanz.

I believe you .....