Trouble getting Wifi working on tv


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I bought a cheap LG 32" tv to use in a bedroom and it runs perfectly on the freesat as expected. It wanted to connect to Wifi, and as I have a pretty secure wifi password, about 24 mixed charactors, I thought it would be easy. Apart from having ongoing eye trouble in one eye which has me changing glasses from distance to closeup constantly to read the remote and the screen, I eventually got the Wifi password down and tried to get it working. No way, the area code was required, whatever that is. I had already told it that I was based in theUK. Could it be related to the internet provider, Virgin Media in this instance? My smartphone runs Wifi at home no problems, the old one didn't, but that was due to the Wifi password being too long by one charactor, but the old phone was only 3G, so I left it at that.
The tv is an LG 32" 720p p/n LG 32LQ630B6LA.
 

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tinmar49 said:
I bought a cheap LG 32" tv to use in a bedroom and it runs perfectly on the freesat as expected. It wanted to connect to Wifi, and as I have a pretty secure wifi password, about 24 mixed charactors, I thought it would be easy. Apart from having ongoing eye trouble in one eye which has me changing glasses from distance to closeup constantly to read the remote and the screen, I eventually got the Wifi password down and tried to get it working. No way, the area code was required, whatever that is. I had already told it that I was based in theUK. Could it be related to the internet provider, Virgin Media in this instance? My smartphone runs Wifi at home no problems, the old one didn't, but that was due to the Wifi password being too long by one charactor, but the old phone was only 3G, so I left it at that.
The tv is an LG 32" 720p p/n LG 32LQ630B6LA.
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Don't know if it helps but per Google in the UK, an area code (historically called an STD code) is a 2–5 digit prefix (starting with 0) that designates a specific geographic region. When calling from abroad, the leading '0' is dropped, and it follows the '+44' country code. For example, London uses 020 (domestic) or +44 20 (international).

The US has a 3 digit area code prefix before their phone numbers.
 

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By googling around including YouTube indicates you need to set the TV to UK in the settings before doing anything else as it maybe auto-ing to US or some other country.

Google AI says the LG code for UK and Europe is 3122, other suggestions are 0000 or some such dummy number.
Maybe a Post Code would work, with/without space.

It's unlikely to be a telephone area code(STD), but no harm in trying that.


LG guides/manuals are poor.
 

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