Poor TV internet signal

Arsenal2019

[Deleted User] said:

There was a time decades ago when people wouldn't think twice about running wires all around the house and up and down the stairs to get a phone extension in the kitchen / bedroom / living room or for a doorbell etc yet nowadays everyone seems reluctant to run an ethernet cable and solve wifi troubles for a few quid 

I’d have this option for when I watched catch up on the tv. But the mrs wouldn’t approve , and I think the puppy would like it also 😂

Arsenal2019

RumRat said:

Of course there may be another solution. get a cheap TV stick Roku, Fire TV, Google Chromcast Ultra with google TV. Any of these should pick up your wifi if your Xbox can.
Another simple try.....Unplug TV for at least 2 minutes, this should reset the TV and may get it to grab WiFi better..

I have tried the on/off method and unfortunately doesn’t work  

RumRat

Arsenal2019 said:

RumRat said:

Of course there may be another solution. get a cheap TV stick Roku, Fire TV, Google Chromcast Ultra with google TV. Any of these should pick up your wifi if your Xbox can.
Another simple try.....Unplug TV for at least 2 minutes, this should reset the TV and may get it to grab WiFi better..

I have tried the on/off method and unfortunately doesn’t work  

Have you tried resetting the TV to factory settings?

Arsenal2019

RumRat said:

Arsenal2019 said:

RumRat said:

Of course there may be another solution. get a cheap TV stick Roku, Fire TV, Google Chromcast Ultra with google TV. Any of these should pick up your wifi if your Xbox can.
Another simple try.....Unplug TV for at least 2 minutes, this should reset the TV and may get it to grab WiFi better..

I have tried the on/off method and unfortunately doesn’t work  

Have you tried resetting the TV to factory settings?

Yeah: I’ve also tried disconnecting from the WiFi and back on before watching stuff, turning off from the mains when finished watching / Leaving on standby. Nothing seems to work. It’s really pi****g me off.
I just don’t understand it- even when I look at the WiFi strength on the TV it doesn’t seem to drop below 3 out of the 4 bars 

mobileron

Download an app called analti on the tv if u can,it will give u real wifi speeds,i also have Hisense tv and it works well for me on wifi only.

neilmcl

I would go with the solution of getting a separate streaming device such as a Fire TV stick or Roku and using that instead. Although you will have another power cable lead to take care off and as your TV is on the wall you'll need a HDMI slot on the side of it.

RumRat

You can get adapters to power from the USB ports...e.g
Mission USB Power Cable for Amazon Fire TV (Eliminates the Need for AC Adapter): Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Arsenal2019

mobileron said:

Download an app called analti on the tv if u can,it will give u real wifi speeds,i also have Hisense tv and it works well for me on wifi only.

I cannot seem to find this on my TV

Arsenal2019

Right. Well it’s quite clear, that this is awful. This is the speed my TV is getting and I ran the test three times- this is the best result I got.

Every other device in the house is getting speeds of no less than 55mbps (which is what I should be getting)

with this been said, what devices would everyone recommend I should go for? 

[Deleted User]

Arsenal2019 said:

Right. Well it’s quite clear, that this is awful. This is the speed my TV is getting and I ran the test three times- this is the best result I got.

Every other device in the house is getting speeds of no less than 55mbps (which is what I should be getting)

with this been said, what devices would everyone recommend I should go for? 

Something really interesting in that speed test results in that the download is less than the upload.

To me that means the TV is not "hearing" the wifi broadcast from the router very well but the router can "hear" the TV broadcasting wifi ok - not sure what your max upload speed would top out as on other devices but guessing it is close to it.

Anyway - comes back to my first post on this matter, the TV simply cannot receive wifi signal strong enough to negotiate a high data rate because of a) inherent design of the TV wifi aerial b) location causes the Wifi signal to degrade when it gets to the TV.

Ping time is awful as well.

Personally I'd be going for the Wifi extender or powerline solution at this point.

However you could try to see if there is a better 2.4Ghz channel available - using a Wifi analyser to see what channels are being used - maybe a neighbour is using the same channel and it might perform better on a different one but do stick to channels 1,6 or 11 on 2.4 Ghz if you are experimenting.

Get a laptop near the TV and run a Wifi analyser such as Inssider or maybe one on an Android phone just to see if anybody else using the same channels?

So for example below - Channel 1 and 6 are being used by my neighbours so channel 11 is the clearest one on the 2.4 GHz band because although it is being used, the signals are quite weak. (VM-WIFI blue is me, the grey lines are my neighbours)