How to connect Samsung 46c750 to Internet without USB Dongle

Hi Folks,

As you see i'm quite effective today i share lots of info about home networking. Here's another trick for you. I have recently purchase a Samsung 46C750 which has lots of capabilities like DLNA rendering, Internet TV (i still not manage to make it work, but i'm working on it) and accessing inter via it's widgets (i'll come to them in another post don't worry).

To be able to do that you need to connect your TV to a network in my of your case it is your home router which has access to internet and probably your PC which act as a DLNA server in your network. Well you can make it easily if your router and your TV is close to each other but in my case they're 20 meters away each other and i don't like long cable around me. So i decided to make it wireless cause my router has wireless interface however i realized that my TV doesn't support any other USB Wireless dongle except Samsung LinkStick which is not available in my country. Yeah that sucks :)

Anyway no worries if you have another wireless router which is able to make wireless bridge connection. My previous post "How to set up WDS between RT TI and Broadcom Routers" explains how to make this 2 wireless router talk to each other. I only didn't mention in that post, how to plug another network device to second wireless bridged router to be able to share internet from WDS enabled router.


Soho ADSL routers designed to set default gateways from physical interface like ADSL port which is you WAN connection, and some other only routers (not the ones ADSL capable) can use its LAN as WAN interface or has separate WAN port. In our case we a router which has wl0/LAN, br0/LAN and ppp0/WAN interfaces. If we change wl0 as our WAN it will be all good. To be able to this you gotta get rid of ppp0 interface. There are ways to do that, from cli or Web GUI. I've done from Web GUI by deleting WAN connections. Then i set a static IP address with proper netmask for LAN interface. Then in routing menu i set its default gateway IP to WDS router's IP address. Remember they're bridge routers they must be in same subnet.

Samsung TV has a network setting test tool, you can test it if your internet connection ok.

I hope you find it useful.

Typhoon Master