Double your Internet Speed by changing 1 thing on your Smart TV!

Smart TVs are connected wirelessly or wired to a LAN cable. But what if your Smart TV is still buffering? What if your gamers are still laggy? This happens because of a slow internet connection - so here is how to boost your internet speed and get faster wifi so you can fix that!

COMMON SENSE NOTE: There are literally thousands of makes and models of TVs around the world and obviously I can't test them all. You now know the concept of what you are looking for so now read/ Google your own TV's manual to make sure your TV can do this. You can always use the adaptor on other devices like a computer or return it if doesn't work with your particular TV.

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[MarkoVukovic]

Great tip! Some modern TV's also now have USB 3 ports. Plug the adapter in there for even faster speed than the USB 2's approx 300mbit/s limitation.

[ateasoners]

Thanks my downloads are only 60 minutes instead of an 1 hour

[NJNinni]

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[DeeDee-aL]

Every time I'm watching your videos I feel like I'm in a classroom. Your information always on point and following your instructions makes everything safer. Thank you for sharing.

[SMILEYRLR]

My router had a warning for the tv, no matter which port I used, saying to use a better cable that it was only getting 100mbs. I changed changed my cat6 cable thinking it was bad. I reset the tv after going through all my settings and nothing. I went through my router settings and disabled the priatization of streaming over everything else. I rebooted my router. Nothing. I found your video and I'm sold. Thank you sir.

[wesbourret]

This man single handedly saved my online fps game experience. Before, I was suffering from 200+ avg ping, and I searched for answers everywhere. Nothing I tried fixed my ping. Until I found his fix for internet speed, which involved adjusting mtu size. Now I get lower than 60 avg ping, and I can go back to streaming valorant. Thank you so much!!!

[nathangood]

My TV's wired internet speed just went through the roof!!! Thank you!

[brianvandy]

Your adapter is usb3, but the usb port on the tv is only usb 2, so you're limited to the speed of the usb 2.0 port (max 480mbps). So the gigabit adapter is a bit overkill. You want to find a tv that has usb 3 ports.

[philbranagan]

Thanks Liron! Saw this vid at the same time I was installing a new modem/router. The combination of connecting the smart TV to the LAN port (2.5G) and carefully placing the modem, and tidying up a few other things saw the speed jump from mid-120s down to a consistent 195mbps. Win!

[pesepsps]

I just use 5Ghz, AX standard and I get ~300Mbps on my smart tv (wireless), without any third party devices. I live in Romania (Europe), and I have a 1Gbps subscription plan from my ISP (aprox. 10$/mounth - with the ONT and wifi router included).

[DanielSilva-tbpe]

What setting does it have to be on in order to recognize the USB with the Ethernet connected to it?

[asherdavid]

i literally just tried it and it absolutely worked on my LG C9 TV

[AdhamOhm]

Thing to keep in mind is that most people probably won't need this, as most 4K video bandwidth from Internet streaming maxes out at around 25Mbps, which will barely put a dent in the TV's 100Mbps NIC.

Now uncompressed UHD Blu Ray backups from your Plex server (128Mbps usually), that's a different story. You _will_ need this.

[danmaier]

Hello, I have an LG TV 2019 and it doesn't work for me with the USB adapter. I've tried all USB ports.
Do you have an idea why this doesn't work?
I have a USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapter from Cable Matters
Greetings from Austria (Europe)

[Helpfulsuggestions]

I would like to know what brand of TVs work best for this ?

[johngoard]

Well Liron where I live in Australia we still have a 4G network and my download is still only 50Mbs and there is nothing that I can do about it. As for hooking up an Ethernet cable well, that would be extraordinarily difficult for me as my modem is in another room 30 metres away. I am not that savvy and I don't see the issue with upload speeds as mine is usually around 3Mbs. As for the 6G network I cannot see that happening for a very long time as we are so far behind you in the US. Having said that I think your fix for those who can use it - it is fantastic.

[zombieregime]

The thing to remember about Wi-Fi is that in your router the Wi-Fi radio is sitting on a single interface port. So imagine all of your wireless devices are sharing a single port inside the router, the more devices you have and the more they're doing the longer they're going to have to wait their turn to get data in and out. Sure when it's their turn to transmit it transmits fairly quickly but then the lag between it transmitting and then the router taking a moment to talk to all the other devices, then getting your data back and waiting for your device to grab a time slot, it can slow down the connection overall quite drastically. also in some cases it might be beneficial to just turn off beamforming if your router supports it. Sometimes as it tries to find a multipath solution to your device it screws up the math and you end up just pumping a bunch of interference.

Also also, wired is always better than wireless. Period. End of story. If anyone has something to say against that, no you don't, you are wrong. If you can go wired always go wired! Always! wireless should be a last resort if you have a wired port on your device. Especially if you plan on streaming a lot of data constantly. And HD video is a lot of data! 4k is a ridonkoulous amount of data. 10 devices all streaming 4k clamoring for airtime? It's a packet traffic jam in the air man....

.... Actually hold on a tick, how can you run a tech channel and not know wired is always better? I mean knowing the intricacies of how Wi-Fi devices talk to each other that starts getting into the hard nerd territory, i grant it. But come on man, that's like tech 101

Oh, also unless you are passing a lot of data at once, and you know you're connecting to servers that can support that level of throughput and bandwidth, paying extra for bandwidth you don't use from your ISP is just throwing money away. If you only ever hit say 300 megabits a second, don't throw away money on the gigabit link, you're never going to saturate it and every unused bit is wasted money. Also also also, just a little life pro tip for anyone who hasn't heard it, unless you're streaming your gameplay, video games only exchange small text packets of your characters position which direction they're looking which direction they're shooting whatever, video is magnitudes larger than multiplayer online gaming data streams.

[rvnmedic]

My router is on the 2nd floor and our HDTV is below on the 1st floor. I can't run an ethernet cable without making a mess of our walls and a subsequent divorce. The average download speed on the HDTV was ~ 75 with the Spectrum router. I bought an ASUS RT-AX3000 V2 Dual Band (and the price was reasonable!). The speed test showed over 300 MBPS download and 11 MBPS upload.

As the router has 4 antennas, I can adjust each antenna individually to optimize the device's speed. A 32" HDTV in our basement is now receiving ~ 250 MBPS download speed now and it's 2 floors down from the router. This router is also supporting V6, so as the new devices include that in the future, it's ready for it. This is the best router I've ever had.

[sglenn]

I ordered the one in your link. It was the "Amazon Basics Aluminum USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter". The one you referenced and showed in your video was the "Rankie USB Network Adapter, USB 3.0 to RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Internet Adapter". Will either one of these work? Thanks

[davidriley]

Unfortunately this does not work for all TVs. I have a Sony XBR 55 X950G (bought in 2019) that has 3.0 and 2.0 USB ports and I tried three different dongles from different manufacturers. None of them worked. At the current OS level, it does not support this. The TV is on Android 9 and currently is not upgradable to Android 10 nor google TV, both of which should support USB to Ethernet dongles. It has the Google TV interface, but still on Android 9. I've heard an upgrade is on the way, but not holding my breath

It is rather dumb that TV manufacturers are not including GB ethernet ports, why is the industry behind on something that shouldn't be much more in cost? Any idea on this?