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A vendor could display a nag screen at inopportune moments to connect the TV. As far as I know Samsung does this.

by _nalply 5y ago

mod 5y ago
Also, some TVs have been known to scan for open networks, and use those without permission.
- carleton 5y ago
  Do you have a source on this?
  - syntheticcorp 5y ago
    There is none. This has been asserted for years on HN but I’ve never seen a modicum of evidence for it.
    - mod 5y ago
      I posted it in this thread (I'm GP). I admit, I think my source was probably HN comments. I tend to trust them more than they deserve. I did a Google, and it seems a very sketchy claim.
headass 5y ago
we have a samsung tv that is exclusively used with an apple tv and it’s seemed ok this far but i’m not sure how/if i can completely kill it trying to connect as we currently have no nearby open networks but if one pops up it’ll try and connect and i detest that
- zrobotics 5y ago
  Setup an open wifi link w/ a separate router, search Amazon for travel router for devices under US$35. This may need to provide a response from an expected domain, just connect the TV and a PC to the open wifi (that isn't connected to the internet) and use Wireshark to see what domains the TV is trying to connect to. Setup the router dns to provide 400 responses to those queries, and problem solved. Why yes, this is a ludicrous amount of technical work to expect the average consumer to do, and it is fucking disgusting that this is even a concern. I'll continue to use my 8 year old TV, I don't need 4k for something I'm watching from 8 feet away anyway. I had to DMZ a friend's smart TV, since it was booting excessively slowly waiting for a response from the (Sony) servers, which is why I have a work around. Still, spending $35 and polluting the 2.5ghz band even more seems stupid. The TV in question had an ethernet port, but providing 400 responses on that didn't improve boot times, since it tried to find a wifi signal after that. Just stupid that a TV will be slow to turn in depending on what external servers it can contact. Edit-stated this was an LG TV, it was a Sony.
sleepybrett 5y ago
Connect it to your network and blackhole all their traffic.

A vendor could display a nag screen at inopportune moments to connect the TV. As far as I know Samsung does this.

mod 5y ago

Also, some TVs have been known to scan for open networks, and use those without permission.

carleton 5y ago
Do you have a source on this?
- syntheticcorp 5y ago
  There is none. This has been asserted for years on HN but I’ve never seen a modicum of evidence for it.
  - mod 5y ago
    I posted it in this thread (I'm GP). I admit, I think my source was probably HN comments. I tend to trust them more than they deserve. I did a Google, and it seems a very sketchy claim.

headass 5y ago

we have a samsung tv that is exclusively used with an apple tv and it’s seemed ok this far but i’m not sure how/if i can completely kill it trying to connect as we currently have no nearby open networks but if one pops up it’ll try and connect and i detest that

zrobotics 5y ago
Setup an open wifi link w/ a separate router, search Amazon for travel router for devices under US$35. This may need to provide a response from an expected domain, just connect the TV and a PC to the open wifi (that isn't connected to the internet) and use Wireshark to see what domains the TV is trying to connect to. Setup the router dns to provide 400 responses to those queries, and problem solved. Why yes, this is a ludicrous amount of technical work to expect the average consumer to do, and it is fucking disgusting that this is even a concern. I'll continue to use my 8 year old TV, I don't need 4k for something I'm watching from 8 feet away anyway. I had to DMZ a friend's smart TV, since it was booting excessively slowly waiting for a response from the (Sony) servers, which is why I have a work around. Still, spending $35 and polluting the 2.5ghz band even more seems stupid. The TV in question had an ethernet port, but providing 400 responses on that didn't improve boot times, since it tried to find a wifi signal after that. Just stupid that a TV will be slow to turn in depending on what external servers it can contact. Edit-stated this was an LG TV, it was a Sony.

sleepybrett 5y ago

Connect it to your network and blackhole all their traffic.