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No Ethernet connection on TV
Currently streaming with WIFI. Would like to hard wire to router. It's a Sharp ROKU TV with no Ethernet connection on TV. 3 HDMI ports, and 1 USB. Any workarounds? Thanks
Last edited by Ralph; 12-22-2019 at 04:11 PM. |
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Yes LOL.....This was a dirt cheap sale item on Amazon. Should have know better. It works OK....but we only have 100 MBPS service and too much stuff around the house soaking up band width. Occasionally get buffering. Supposedly we're getting 200 MBPS service standard soon.....and a close by neighborhood served with fiber optic claims to be getting 1000 soon. The down load speed wars are heating up. Wonder if the available equipment can keep up?
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You can read a few hundred pages on a lot of websites about a USB to ethernet adapter and how people can/cannot get it to work. Looks like you can buy a Roku box with ethernet and connect it to your Roku TV. Allegedly that will work.
Google is a good thing. https://community.roku.com/t5/Discus...on/td-p/512999 |
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I have an external roku with an ethernet port. I hooked it up to make sure it worked and then disconnected it because I didn't want the TV to be soaking up all the bandwidth.
roku recently sent me an email saying that one of our units is no longer supported. I think they offered me a coffee cup or something. I always wondered about these smart tv's, I think I would rather have a dumb one. There aren't many available now, they are making too much money spying on you. |
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Next time you are buffering, why not run a speed test on your service provider.
Your issue may not be the wifi. The other issue is signal strength. How far is the TV from the tower? What signal strength does it show? |
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I don't see how a smart TV can spy on you. No camera's in mine. Last edited by Ralph; 12-22-2019 at 05:24 PM. |
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The consumer grade cable modems may or may not give you any performance; they certainly don't give you any control over security. My old router suddenly slowed to a crawl. I think it was hacked. I reset it and all was good; then I upgraded to a newer model with more recent security controls. If your performance has degraded, there's a reason...either you're suddenly hoovering up more bandwidth (unlikely) or something's going on with one of your devices or your provider. Check all the connections...loosen, retighten all the cable connections. And yea, your smart tv will spy on you. It might not have a camera. It might not even have an obvious (or any) microphone. But it sure is reporting back everything you're doing with your remote control -- all the shows you watch, everything. I have a smart tv, but never activated its smartness. I mostly use Tivo for large screen content access. Hope this rambling helps.
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Cable speed is limited by the number of devices connected to "the pipe". But I'm not referring to just YOUR home, but ALL local users (in your neighborhood) using the same service provider.
If you live in a neighborhood with a lot of bandwidth hogs, you're SOL. With cable, the bandwidth is shared among users. Unless your neighborhood gets that upgrade you mentioned, you may continue to get buffer errors. For an experiment, you can shut off one of the other household devices to see if the buffering problems go away. Continue to increase the number of shut off devices periodically and see if reaching some point you get buffer-free TV. At least that will tell you whether your usage is part of the problem.
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Roku makes a box with an ethernet connector, then connect to the TV via HDMI.
I have a smart TV I bought a number of years ago, and the "smart" part was pretty useless - and slow. We only used it for Prime, and then support for the Prime app ended, so we got the Roku box. The box is much faster and has a lot more function. |
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Thanks....I do have an extra ROKU Express media player. And my TV, while not having an ethernet input, does have HDMI ports and a USB for power output.
Thanks....hadn't thought of that. Don't guess the built in ROKU and the exterior one will interfere with each other? I use ROKU on everything because I bought a bunch of the stock just after it went public.....and I like to use products of companies I own part of. (even if my position is a small part of the company's market cap) |
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