I've just bought a new smart TV and the internet speeds I'm getting using the WI-FI dongle are atrocious, so I instead wanted to test it with the LAN port.

Rather than going out and buying a 50m LAN cable to link up with my router though, I wanted to first quickly check it with my laptop, accessing the internet through the laptops WI-FI (which is fast enough for me), but I'm having trouble doing this.

I've linked up a LAN cable between the TV and the laptop, and I've gone into network settings and set the sharing functionality on the WI-FI adapter with the laptops LAN adaptor, but the TV isn't picking up anything. Is there anything else I need to do?

If it isn't working automatically, I can manually set the IP address to use on the TV, but what do I need to do on the laptop end?

Im using windows 7

Last time I did something similar I had to bridge the two connections. Go to your network connections, select both your Wireless connection and your wired connection (Ctrl+click), then right-click one and there should be an option called "Bridge Connections" or similar*.

Do note that the connection quality is likely to be pretty poor, depending on your laptop.

*This was done using Vista

If you need more help, the term you're looking for is "Network bridge"

Good luck

Thanks, that worked

Did it turn out to be that the connection was the bottleneck? I would also worry about whether whatever chip its got inside is fast enough to render quickly. I know my smartphone can take quite long to render pages, even over Wifi.

It works fine when I have it wired up, so it is just a problem with the Samsung WIFI adapter I think.

The weird thing is that over the course of the last few days, it seems to be getting better.