In conclusion, Youview boxes don’t actually have the in built functionality for you to connect to them wirelessly. So, you can’t use your wifi to connect to the both without using an ethernet cable.

Wifi Adapters and Repeaters

1. Plug your Wifi adaptor into a wall socket. Make sure it is somewhere near your Youview box.
2. Connect the Wifi adaptor to your Wifi network.
3. Using an ethernet cable, connect the Wifi adaptor to your Youview box.
4. That’s it!

How to Connect or Reconnect the Humax 2tune to your WiFi Network

1. Press Home.
2. Press the Up arrow to make the Settings button appear.
3. Press OK.
4. Scroll down to Network Settings and press OK.
5. Scroll down to Configure WLAN and press OK.
6. Scroll down to your *network name and press OK.

The purpose of the USB slot on my Youview box is no use to the consumer of the service, but via a freeview play box or freeview play TV such as Panasonic, I can record a programme and take the USB with me, play it on another TV such as take it to a friends, Play it on my computer, so if I want to relax in a coffee shop …

A wireless bridge is a solution (specifically, a set of devices) that allows you to connect two networks, or more accurately two network segments, over a wireless channel – sort of like a bridge, if you will, hence the name. You may also find a wireless bridge referred to as a WiFi bridge.

How to Hook a Router to a TV via USB

1. Examine your Internet router to see if it is transmitting a signal.
2. Identify the USB port on the back of your router and the USB port on the back of your TV.
3. Plug one end of the Ethernet cable into the USB port on the router.
4. Turn your TV on manually or with your remote control.

All Humax and other box makers do is assemble the hardware and supply a small amount of code similar to drivers on a PC to sit betweent he hardware and YouView code. If you’re as unhappy as you keep saying you are you should take it back to the shop for a refund or sell it to someone & recoup your money. Well that was daft as it isn’t a HDR-Fox T2.

Most other boxes make use of the USB port for importing and exporting programmes, music, photos etc. This is what the Humax HDR box does and is a serious omission from the YouView box.

You can upload video audio and photographs to the HDR-1000s hard drive or play back directly from usb. The only content you can transfer the other way (HDD to USB) is content you uploaded yourself in the first place.

Dave71 – The box has USB ports so it meets the spec and of course YouView have certified the box and granted it the YouView stamp. It’s YouView themselves who’ll add the code to enable the ports via a software update when the need arises.