Post by brucemacneill on Nov 27, 2014 10:42:14 GMT -5
My "Smart" TV all of a sudden got dumb and wouldn't connect to my wireless router. I haven't used it in awhile because the DSL is too slow to stream movies very well but I thought I'd try, this being Thanksgiving and there isn't much on TV I care about. It wasn't connected. I checked all the settings and they looked OK. The PCs are connected OK. The TV could see the router and knew it was locked. I thought that maybe I had changed the router password but even unlocking the router it still wouldn't connect. I went as far as reading the user manual and going back through the setup to no avail.
After a few hours I broke down and googled the problem, my general rule being that if I have a technical problem I'm not the first to have it and someone already knows the answer. After a lot of looking at posts there it was, the answer. It seems to be a common problem with Vizio TVs and people have spent days with tech support and with their ISPs and no one can fix it. No one except one guy who put the whole thing on Youtube and how to fix it, well get it to work anyway. His solution was to turn off the automatic setup in the TV, DHCP, and manually key in the addresses for IP, Router and DNS. I did that and it works fine. IMHO that means there's something wrong with Vizio's DHCP routine but apparently they don't acknowledge it.
Anyway, if you have a technical problem, or probably any problem, you're probably not the first to experience it, someone already worked it out and has it posted somewhere on the Internet. Save some time, start there.
After a few hours I broke down and googled the problem, my general rule being that if I have a technical problem I'm not the first to have it and someone already knows the answer. After a lot of looking at posts there it was, the answer. It seems to be a common problem with Vizio TVs and people have spent days with tech support and with their ISPs and no one can fix it. No one except one guy who put the whole thing on Youtube and how to fix it, well get it to work anyway. His solution was to turn off the automatic setup in the TV, DHCP, and manually key in the addresses for IP, Router and DNS. I did that and it works fine. IMHO that means there's something wrong with Vizio's DHCP routine but apparently they don't acknowledge it.
Anyway, if you have a technical problem, or probably any problem, you're probably not the first to experience it, someone already worked it out and has it posted somewhere on the Internet. Save some time, start there.