Connecting TV Wirelessly

Possibly not entirely OT but I know it is something that people on this group have spoken about before.

I have a Freesat TV (Panasonic) which has an ethernet socket and I want to link it wirelessly to my router so that I can get BBC iPlayer (I have tried this with a long ethernet cable as a test and it worked fine). I had assumed that I needed a wireless access point and am looking at this one:

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now that I have read all the blurb I am not certain that it is actually what I need. My intention is that a unit sitting beside the TV will receive the wirless signals from the router which is in the adjacent room and feed them to the TV via an ethernet cable. Am I looking at the right gadget (or type of gadget)? I know I could do this with Homeplug but the wireless option is far more suitable if I can crack it.

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Tinkerer
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In article , Tinkerer scribeth thus

What you need is an Airpoint at the router end unless you have one anyway built into that, and a client unit often the same as a Airpoint just set differently and a bit of wire CAT 5 cable from that to the telly..

It will work 'tho how well depends on how much other 2.4 Ghz traffic is around i.e. other Wi-fi points Video senders leaky microwave ovens etc.

If you must have a wireless link invest in a 5.8 Ghz one these are less cluttered than 2.4 or better still use a cable best option of all:)...

For wireless stuff give Solwise a call and ask them what they advise in the way of equipment....

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tony sayer

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however now that I have read all the blurb I am not certain that it is

I think you need a proper Panasonic TV dongle eg from Amazon

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I know nothing about Panasonics, the TV manual should indicate what to do.

rusty

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therustyone

I don't know enough about networking to answer your question directly, but these definitely work.

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have exactly your set-up with a 2008 Panny. Now we have i-Player I use this to connect the network.

You can probably get them cheaper elsewhere. Indeed Maplin were selling them for considerably less a few months ago.

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however now that I have read all the blurb I am not certain that it is

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I knew it was a good idea installing a network outlet behind the TV...

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Bob Eager

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however now that I have read all the blurb I am not certain that it is

I bought

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"Edimax EW-7206APG Wireless LAN Access Point 802.11b/g 54Mbps" to connect my Bush Freesat HD box to my wireless network. Works fine with iPlayer, and would work with the Panny I am sure. Haven't tried it with my big Panny because I have Virgin cable so get iPlayer through that. Unfortunately out of stock at Amazon but it may help to have a working solution as a starting point.

Cheers

Dave R

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David WE Roberts

Does the router have wireless capability?

If so all you need is an ethernet to wireless bridge of some sort not an access point (though some access points can be put into bridge mode). If the Panny dongle is a reasonable price that is probably the best route at least then if it doesn't work you can bang on Panasonics desk to make 'em fix it.

Be aware that WiFi channels in urban areas are pretty crowded and that iPlayer really does like 2Mbps sustained if it's not going to keep "buffering". Remember that "58Mbps" is a good old marketing "up to" figure not a guranteed sustained rate. If there is a lot of actvity on 2.4GHz, not just from other WiFi but everything else that uses the band throughput may drop below that which enables iPlayer to be acceptable.

Personally I'd go for cable. Cheap, reliable, fast, secure.

The current refurb has six Cat5e and six CT100 coax cables fed into the place where the telly etc will be. We already use three of each...

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Dave Liquorice

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> however now that I have read all the blurb I am not certain that it is

Now that is exactly what I am looking for. My Panasonic doesn't have a USB socket so the Panasonic dongle won't work. Many thanks. A quick search brought up this one which appears to do the same job.

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Oh, and year/model might help. My Panasonic has an Ethernet socket but AFAIK doesn't have a USB socket so unlikely to support a wireless dongle. The devide you mention looks fine. Description says "It is designed to establish a scalable wireless G network or to connect Ethernet enabled devices to an existing wireless network." Second part of that is exactly what you want to do.

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> however now that I have read all the blurb I am not certain that it is

The Panasonic TV is as you describe, ethernet port but not USB and is a 2009 TX-L37G10B. After reading everyones comments and delving a bit further I have ordered one of these:

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make as the one I originally asked about but rated to 150mbps. The overall impression from reviews is that it is a bit complicated to set up but once done will do everything I require and (according to one guy) boost my wireless signal around the house as well.

I will post back in a few weeks to update any other interested parties.

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If you get that to actually do half that anywhere reliably then let us know;!...

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I have that model working fine with a Sony running iPlayer in higher quality with no problems. I did have a bit of a time setting it up, but found a list of settings somewhere which worked ( I think I was one parameter out.) Box is very small and sits behind the set. If you need the setup I will post it.

John

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That would be appreciated. Several people have included the setup they used on their reviews of the device on the Amazon web site, but sod's law says that none will have covered all points. So yes please if that's no trouble.

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Tinkerer

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your main wireless router has an ip address of 192.168.1.254 (if not change occurrences of this to your desired address) and you are happy with an address of 192.168.1.250 for the new client router, if not change to the address you need. Be careful, I think this is the bit that caused it to burst into life for no apparent reason

John

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JohnW

Many thanks.

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Tinkerer

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I said that I would report back on this. I actually bought the TP-Link model shown here:

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have now installed it. Installation was straightforward but only after I spotted the bit about having to set the PC on a static IP address to initially link to it via the browser, this is because, out of the box, the Access Ppoint is set to issue (by DHCP) and respond to addresses

192.168.1.100 and above. Once set up as a client that is not a problem as the PC (or TV of course) will be given a number in that range. Now it is set up and installed behind the TV, it works perfectly and I am well pleased. I had previously tested the TV on iPlayer using a cable connection across the floor and the performance seems identical using this unit. For £15 it is a cracking little piece of kit and I would certainly recommend it to anyone else with similar needs. My thanks to JohnW for sharing his settings and to the Amazon customer who detailed his in his review. The instructions, and the help pages, are very clear but every little bit extra helps.
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