[stomachmonkey]

Smart TVs are generally not a smart choice.

They’ll all run some proprietary OS which could limit choice of installable apps or leave you with an app lacking feature parity with the iOS/Android versions.

They are more expensive for no real benefit. The delta in price between a smart TV and it’s dumb sibling will get you a standalone device like RoKU or Apple TV.

If the TV goes tits up you have to redo everything on the replacement TV vs just plugging in your external streaming device.


WIFI is for convenience not performance. MoCA extenders are the way to go.

All residential cable providers use MoCA. MoCA runs ethernet over coax. Plenty of room in a coax pipe. It’ll support full gigabit.

Right now every live coax jack in your home can supply ethernet so go to amazon and get an Actiontek Moca adapter/ bridge.

While you can, don’t use garden variety $2.00 splitters. They max out at 1,000 mhz, spend $10 a splitter for 1,500 to 2,000 mhz.