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Mr Joshua

Mr Joshua

Mr Joshua

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We've just bought a Samsung TV (UE40D5520) and I'd like to connect it to the internet using a dongle.

The guy in the shop said it had to be an official Samsung product and not one of the generic third party dongles.

Now is this correct or was he just trying to make me pay £50 for something I can obtain much cheaper elsewhere?
 
I'm pretty sure it's gotta be an official one. I thought about getting one for my Blu-ray player, but it needed to be an official one. Damn thing nearly costs as much as the player itself.

Decided to save some case, and use ethernet.

In the case of the Sony one, people have grumbled about the poor signal strength for such an expensive thing. I don't know how Samsung's fares.

If you didn't want to pay the ridiculous price these things cost, you could probably use some home plugs.
 
Correct.

It's a TV, not a computer. Samsung are not going to write/include drivers for every WiFi dongle known to man just so you can save a few quid.
 
If it has ethernet then you could use a wifi bridge via the ethernet socket.

This is what I am doing with my panny GT30 which also says you should buy an expensive USB dongle for wifi.

Just buy any cheap wifi bridge (most access points are bridges also) like the Edimax EW-7416APN which can be had for £35.00

then configure it with a static IP then plug it into your TV's ethernet socket via any cheap cat5 ethernet cable.
 
Thanks for the helpful advice Superficial and Marsman, I'll look into it.

Magicboy, there's no need to be so caustic Mr. social skills.
 
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What do you want to use it for? If its for internet@TV, or streaming music, TV Shows, photos etc then WiFi is ok. But if you planned to stream larger files over the network save yourself the money and get a wired connection instead.

I quickly abandoned the WiFi when all my movies were stuck buffering most of the time.
 
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