LG TV - USB Gig Ethernet Woes

[Conanius]

Hi folks,

I've read about people using USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters with their LG TVs to get around 100mbit ethernet performance issues when accessing my Plex library.

I've just purchased this adapter which several posts on here and indeed several review comments say should work.... but it doesn't.

My LG TV is a 55NANO866NA running WebOS 03.221.05

I know that the dongle wont show up in the menu, but its showing a link light, the activity light flashes every now and again, but the TV isn't able to get on the network.

It's connected directly to my Unifi UDM (running latest software, tried several ports). The UDM is showing a link is active, and that its a 1Gbps.

I've tried powering off and back on the TV (pull power lead out, wait a minute, etc) and tried all 3 USB ports on the back of the tv.

What am I missing?

 

[Conanius]

Just bite the bullet and buy an Nvidia Shield.

It comes with Plex installed and you can stream full UHD Blu-ray rips from your Plex server in Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. Without the need for any transcoding.

All other solutions are comprise in one or another. The Nvidia Shield just works.

This seems like a sensible idea.... I will investigate.

 

[Conanius]

That should be 100Mb/s which is around 12MB's a second.

I'm glad I'm not going mad. USB2.0 at 480Mbits is faster than 10/100Ethernet which is 100Mbits... Hence how everyone who has done this has seen performance improvements