Router? Wireless or?

neilwoods

Do you mean connect the TV to wireless router via your ethernet connection on the TV. If so then answer would be no. That ethernet connection will be for a Cat 5 cable only.

Depending on what TV you have, it may have a USB connection, which you can put in a wireless usb adapter. If it does, then it is best to get the one made by the same company as your TV.

joe2cool

No I mean't having the wireless router hard wired to the PC, still means I can connect the TV to the internet via dongle wireless or via home hub?

Thx any way

closed

still not clear what you are referring to.

to connect a internet enabled tv or set top box wirelessly, the tv/set top box would need to support it.

any laptop or pc with wireless dongle would be able to connect wirelessly via a wireless homehub or router.

joe2cool

Yes my SonyTV & Humax are both internet ready,I was just wondering now that the wireless router is hardwired connected to the PC being also able to connect wireless to the TV & any other items

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internet ready wired, or wireless?

neilwoods

Most wireless routers will have 4 ethernet ports, so you can have 4 items connected via ethernet cable.

Something you may want to check, not sure if there any devices yet with this ability yet. But the some newest HDMI 1.4 cables have ethernet ability. So for instance if both your TV and Humax support this, you would only need 1 ethernet cable going to the TV.

GunJack

most routers will support up to 100 simultaneous devices connected, in a mixture of wired and wireless simultaneously. Does that clear your confusion joe?? i.e. you can use wired AND wifi devices connected to the router at the same time

joe2cool

Cheers guys yes just wondering about wired & wireless being connected at the same time to one router
Something neilwoods said, my blu ray player as an HDMI ethernet enabled cable connected, so would the player be able to connect to the router straight away?

esuhl

macman wrote: »

Wired routers are almost obsolete now, all consumer routers are wireless-all will have 2, usually 4 network ports if you want to connect by ethernet.

Consumer routers aren't all wireless, and I wouldn't say that wired routers are "almost obsolete". Wireless routers manage the wired part of the network in exactly the same way as a wired-only router. There's nothing about the way that wired routers function that makes them obsolete. It would almost be like saying that the standalone DVD player is obsolete because you can get DVD players built into TVs.

A web search for "wired router" returns over half-a-million results. The Netgear website has a whole section dedicated to wired routers and modems for "home" users.

macman

I cannot recall seeing wired routers advertised anywhere in the last 3 or 4 years, though doubtless some are still available.