I have gigabit Internet from Verizon, and all switches in my home are gigabit ones of course. So I was a little upset to see my new 2020 TV, LG OLED65CXPUA, only connects as 100m. When I play 4k videos, I will see the buffering going from 13%, 33%, 65%… etc. which is caused by the slow speed of the TV’s Ethernet.
I thought if I paid more than $2000 for a TV, the least it should have is a gigabit connection, but no, 100m only. LG somehow just don’t want to spend extra $5 for a gigabit chip.
So today finally I receive this adapter from Amazon. It’s small, look very nice, and instantly speed up my Plex playback.
Now I don’t see those 13%,33%… buffering up, all movies are played almost immediately.
So again, here is the link:
It cost so little, yet works so well for me. That’s why I want to tell everyone about it here. Enjoy !
The biggest one I have is 52 gb, and even the 100m connection can handle it (though I didn’t play the whole movie). So I think the new gigabit connection should be OK.
I thought this was obvious. LG TV has USB ports. Put the adapter in the TV’s USB port, then connect a network cable to this adapter, the other end to either a router or a network switch.
Philpw99 said: "I thought this was obvious. LG TV has USB ports. Put the adapter in the TV’s USB port, then connect a network cable to this adapter, the other end to either a router or a network switch."
So are you saying that if you plug the ethernet cable from your router directly into the ethernet port on the LG TV set that it is slow?
But if you remove the ethernet cable from the LG TV and plug it into the adapter and then plug the adapter into a USB port on the TV that it is fast?
Thanks for this recommendation. I was having stuttering/buffering issues on some high bitrate 4K files I was attempting to direct play, whether I was wireless or wired. Purchased the adapter you linked to and now they play flawlessly. Checked my bandwidth dashboard and I saw peak speeds 3x of what I had previously. Thank you!
My LG B7 has 1x1 AC wifi, which is definitely faster than the 100 Mbps Ethernet port.
I dropped a mesh wifi node behind my TV. The Ethernet cable that was connected to the TV is now used for backhaul for the mesh node.
LG now streams media that bursts above 100 Mbps without buffering. An added bonus is that section of the house has better wifi coverage for other devices.
This was discussed about a year ago and works quite well but removes WiFi companion app ability I believe. Hitsville was the user with all the insight back then.
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.
It’s also possible that this specific TV doesn’t support that specific USB Ethernet adapter, or that it doesn’t support any USB Ethernet at all.
I think the “NANO” TVs are software-siblings of the “BX” TVs. I see lots of people discussing the LG “C”-series TVs with USB Ethernet. I don’t see as much about the “NANO” or “BX” series TVs.
Yes the Nano use the Alpha 7 processor, opposed to the C series the Alpha 9. So your assumption could be correct.
Does a Nano have USB3 port? Ok I know it should be backward compatible, just throwing that out there.
Update: It seems that newer LG TV all have USB2 ports only, I do remember my 2014 LG smart Tv had one USB3 port and my OLEDB8 only has USB2 ports
