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**Raylo** · 06-12-2009, 05:13 AM

HP used to make a TV with built in wifi, but these days several brands can use usb wifi adapters to connect to home networks. Also many TVs come with ethernet ports so you could do like I do and use a wireless print server that also has a 4 port wired switch. I have it near the TV and printers (all these devices are wired ethernet to the print server) and it connects all those devices collectively to my network wirelessly.

Also, some Samsung (like mine) and Pioneer TVs have DLNA. You connect the TV to the network via ethernet cable or wireless USB adapter, then install supplied DLNA server software on any or all of the computers on the network (wired or wireless, doesn't matter), and the TV can access media flagged for sharing on the given computers.

I'm not sure what you want to do but just to connect a laptop directly to a TV w/o a network is not a big deal if the TV has a "PC input" for older laptops or HDMI for newer laptops. Then you can view anything playing on the laptop on the TV.

Hope this helps....

06-12-2009, 05:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Raylo TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 525 OS: XP Desktop, Vista HP Notebook, XP Notebook	Re: wireless or wifi tvs HP used to make a TV with built in wifi, but these days several brands can use usb wifi adapters to connect to home networks. Also many TVs come with ethernet ports so you could do like I do and use a wireless print server that also has a 4 port wired switch. I have it near the TV and printers (all these devices are wired ethernet to the print server) and it connects all those devices collectively to my network wirelessly. Also, some Samsung (like mine) and Pioneer TVs have DLNA. You connect the TV to the network via ethernet cable or wireless USB adapter, then install supplied DLNA server software on any or all of the computers on the network (wired or wireless, doesn't matter), and the TV can access media flagged for sharing on the given computers. I'm not sure what you want to do but just to connect a laptop directly to a TV w/o a network is not a big deal if the TV has a "PC input" for older laptops or HDMI for newer laptops. Then you can view anything playing on the laptop on the TV. Hope this helps.... Last edited by Raylo; 06-12-2009 at 05:20 AM.