Seems odd though to market a telly to handle a 4K stream which the two major network suppliers say needs around 25 mbps, with a network card that can only just pass that through. I suppose the argument is that HDMI has plenty of bandwidth and t'web is just for extras.
Curiously enough, I see that my telly has the quad core ARM Cortex A53 - same as the Pi3.
The pi3 will manage about 70 or 80 mbps, with the caveats that it's running a proper os/browser combo, and as long as there's no other io going on - ethernet, USB and sd card all share a bus, and they're call reliant on the cpu to control everything. I imaging the TV is the same, but I suspect (guessing, really) that the OS is java based which is always* a terrible idea for performance.
*yes, always.
Seems reasonable. The OS on the telly is LG WebOS 3 which is Linux diddled about with for LG devices. The web browser app is very limited. No idea whether it's Java, though it may be. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the various tasks rely on a single shared bus. Detail is hard to come by but it seems that many of the SoC functions that would probably be hardware based in a computer are implemented in software and this includes some parts of of the network layers.
So, in short, using a crap TV browser app that probably has a low priority on a shared data bus via a largely virtual SoC, is probably not the best way to discover the network speed through the ethernet socket, or to determine exactly how and how fast the telly will actually handle the data when streaming (which presumably IS an optimised process).
Isn't webos from the palm pre? I always wanted one of them, then they killed it.:(
Yeah, it was. There seem to be three versions: LG, Open, and HP/Palm although the Wikipedia explanation was too boring for me to concentrate through.
My telly has a USB3 socket but I'm reasonably certain the telly will expect any data coming through it to be image or video files rather than network data.
Makes sense, the 100 mbit lan port is slower than the USB 2 interface. I imagine the use case is streaming only, though, as the USB interface will quickly saturate if you're expecting all that data to to disk (as it's gigabit - > USB bus - > cpu - > USB bus - > sd card/external USB drivr
Let me know what speed OOKLA displays in the browser...