Metasyntactic

On 2/26/2020 at 9:00 AM, Razielgr said:

LG 43UJ630V-ZA

It's quite possible this approach won't work with htat.  Most people have been using this for the higher end Oled smart TVs (which probably have some different chipset that makes this work).

4 hours ago, Razielgr said:

Unfortunatelly it doesn't work. 

Plugged it on my LG and it says Unknown usb Device connected.

What LG TV do you have?

5 hours ago, Steffenmand said:

The 127th time worked! And it works every time now!

Super weird!

Better and more stable speeds now 🙂

 

Hooray!

1 hour ago, Steffenmand said:

I only have a light in the small blue led. Are you using the 3.0 slot?

So you have to do that every time ? Or does it just work after that first time ?

Hrm... Worked perfectly for me first time...   You're sure it was this guy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBD7NFU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

?

I have a 65e7, which should be identical to your 65b7 in this regard.

2 hours ago, Filip J said:

Pity that C8 have only usb2.0 connection ... 

Why?  Usb2.0 is more than fast enough. Even the highest bit rate 4k hdr stuff is way less than it can handle that at peak.

7 hours ago, Mihai B. said:

Hi guys,

Could someone with an older WebOS2.0 TV please check if this Cable Matters adapter works properly?

Many thanks,

The cable was like $9. Why not just order it, try it out and let people know? Worst case, you're out a tiny amount of money.

7 minutes ago, Carlos Garcia said:

I bougth the tp-link UE300 and it does not work!

This adapter has the same chipset as the CableMatters  brand adapter. I find it strange that some users say the CableMatters  adapter is working...

With the same chipset, the driver should be the same, so...

Have you disconnected both ehthernet and wifi on the TV?

I have an OLED55C8PLA

>I bougth the tp-link UE300 and it does not work!

Why didn't you buy the adapter that several people here (including myself) have validated to at least work on their machines?

> I find it strange that some users say the CableMatters  adapter is working...

What is strange about it?  It works.  It's been working for me for quite a while now.  This seems to be on you.  Why not return the adapter that doesn't work and go for the one that at least has worked for us?

> Have you disconnected both ehthernet and wifi on the TV?

Yes.

> I have an OLED55C8PLA

I have an 65E7.

12 minutes ago, KM Lee said:

Science-is-truth, some of us are not playing files from the internet. For instance, I have a RAID-5 server configured with six SSDs and it connects to 10G switch via 4 fiber optic cables.  I have been successfully transferring  over 20gbps from this server to another PC. I was trying to play a my daughter's birthday video file recorded by a 4K 60fps 120mbps motion camera from the sever using my LG TV.

In this thread, we are discussing this because we have ways to accurately monitor/measure what bit rate is flawing into our TVs. Some people here know when a gigabit networks is actually working or not. It looks like many people know that the bitrate of the USB port in the TV is even faster than the 100mbps ethernet port. Some of the people in this thread also have files that actually need to transfer peak rate of 160mbps for smooth playback of TrueHD audio and 2160p video.  After using this adapter, these files are actually playing with the TV internal ethernet/wifi turned off.

If you don't need faster than 100mbps in your environment, posting your ego is still your freedom. However, you are very unhelpful. Thanks.

+1

My own personal setup is a 22 drive (12hdd, 8ssd, 2nvme) server that streams to all TVs in my home over wired gigabit.  Up till now, this system worked great except for some of the UHD content.   While the connection to the switch and to all room ports is gigabit, it didn't help that the actual TV connections on my LG tvs was 100mb/s.  We could try wireless, but this has also been problematic due to the contents of our walls, and how many signals are in such a small area. 

Thanks to KM Lee, i now have a solution that works *flawlessly* across all the TVs even when several family members all all streaming high bitrate media across all those TVs at the same time.

LOL.  "science-is-truth" sent me a private message stating that i was simply incorrect and there was no way this CableMatters adapter could actually perform the claims I (and others here) have made about it.  He insists that because he worked for Bob Metcalf, it's not possible that an ethernet-to-usb adapter would be able to provide enough bandwidth for the LG tv to provide a substantively better ability to stream UHD 4k content locally for plex users.

To be 100% clear: "science is truth" is completely wrong here, and is attempting to use an "appeal to authority" argument to bolster his case.  His authority has no bearing here, and his position is trivially shown to be false purely by demonstration.  I, and several others in this thread, have actually gone and tried this adapter.  I have trivially measured hte bandwidth between the TV and my plex server, using both the built-in ethernet and the adapter.  i can easily see how the built-in ethernet is 100mbps, and how that immediately and deleteriously impacts content that needs to go above that (for example, i have content that can easily go >200mbps in some places).  I can then easily see that over the adapter, hitting those speed is not at all a problem.

This is, of course, unsurprising.  That same content worked fine over the *very same* usb port when plugging a usb key.  So, of course there's enough bandwidth over that port to be able to handle that content.  What's fortunate is that the LG tv accepts the adapter plugged in there.

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Note: i've been using this system for several weeks now.  It's been flawless.  Zero issues streaming *any* media from my plex server.  Zero issues with any other streaming apps on the TV.  If anyone is running into the same problem with 100mb/s not being enough to stream some very high-bandwidth content, then def try this out.  It's fantastic, regardless of what ignorant people like science-is-truth say.

Cheers, and thanks again to KM Lee for discovering this and letting us all know.  In one simple step this has solved literally the biggest and most annoying issue i've had with this TV.

18 hours ago, Science-is-Truth said:

Upgrading to Gig Ethernet will have ZERO effect, in any case there is NO WAY to add a different Ethernet adapter to an existing TV.

Its a TV not a PC, on a PC your have the freedom to pretty much whatever you wish as long as you have the harware port and software drivers to support the adapter.,

The problem is between your router and the rest of the Internet.

Its like having a private drive that connections to the interstate on which you can drive at 100MPH, but traffic on the Interstate is only going at 50 MPH.

Guess what your journey and your data will travel at the slower rate

This is 100% incorrect. Existing Ethernet on the TV is limited to 100mb/s. That's not fast enough for some files to stream without problems. This is easy to validate with any sort of content and a measure of the bandwidth needed at any point in time.

The cablematters adapter gives you gig Ethernet over **USB**, where the tv usb port has a min of something like 600mb/s (or rougly 60% of gig-ethernet).

This is why you can play those same files when connected by usb.  There is enough bandwidth on the USB connection already.

Note, this is not theoretical. Files I have that Spike above 100mb/s needed (sometimes up to 150-200), we're unplayable without buffering paused before. Now they all play flawlessly. Measuring from the server I can the bandwidth jump to those levels, where previously it never made it above 100.

In short, you have no idea what you're talking about.

On 7/15/2019 at 6:30 AM, sliyk said:

Eureka it works!

I got exactly the same one, the Cable matters plug, initially I tested it wth my usb 2.0 dongle which failed (as in my post above) then I got the usb 3.0 dongle and it works like a charm! you can also connect via wifi for the other tv features to continue to work as well. This a massive fix for the TV!

This also worked for me.  I bought the plug from https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Ethernet-Adapter-Supporting-x/dp/B00BBD7NFU/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1541851589&sr=8-6&keywords=usb+gigabit+ethernet+adapter+3.0&dpID=41wp1EEgSCL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch and it works amazingly.  Movies that went about 100mb/s (and even were flakey over 5g wifi) play perfectly.  Thank you all so much for this information!