Connecting the laptop to the TV via Wi-Fi

You can most often find ways on the Internet connecting laptop to TV through wired technologies. For example, using HDMI, VGA cables. But you can also do this using a wireless Wi-Fi connection. This is exactly what this article will discuss today. So, first of all, it is necessary that the TV itself be connected to the same wireless network, same as your laptop. Once you are sure of this, you need to set up a DLNA server on your laptop. Most often, for this to happen, it is enough to set "Private" (Home). If all this is there, then by default 4 folders on your laptop “Videos”, “Documents”, “Music” and “Images” become public. If you wish, you can make other folders public.

Now turn on the TV and go to the section where you can see the list of connected devices. For example, on a Sony Bravia TV, you can click on the Home button and here select the “Music”, “Image” or “Video” sections and watch the content that is on the laptop there. LG TVs have a SmartShare section. In this section you will see the contents of all shared folders and specifically the contents of the folders of the connected laptop.

In some cases it can be made even simpler. If you have enabled DLNA mode (set your network to home), then you can right-click on the file that you want to play on the TV and select "Play on". In your case there will be the name of the connected TV.


To broadcast, in general, everything from a laptop to a TV via a wireless Wi-Fi connection, it is necessary that it has support for Miracast and Intel WiDi technologies. Moreover, support for these technologies is available only on Smart TVs.

But if your TV is an ordinary one, but has an HDMI input, and you want to connect it to your laptop via Wi-Fi, then this can be done. But this will require purchasing additional devices. Such devices can be Google Chromecas or Android Mini PC. With these devices you can stream absolutely everything to your TV from your laptop using Wi-Fi. This article looked at real ways to connect a laptop to a TV using a wireless Wi-Fi connection.