RE: bluetooth

["Alistair Watkins" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

as you said Bluetooth is pretty slow the maximum rate is 768kbs split in
various ways over both directions (like ADSL) (i think!) So you probably
wont get more than 250k.. which will probably feel like 56k

however, it does support IP, if you get a decent USB adapter that supports
one of the IP profiles... Its good for quick Ad-Hoc networking (i use it to
have a few embedded IP over bluetooth webservers in some of my control
devices) but not good for using as a LAN...
It really is worth spending the cash on getting good WiFi cards, as they
will prevent a lot of frustration later! (one one of my cheap USB ones, the
range is about 2 meters)

HTH

AListair

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shields [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 November 2003 08:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] bluetooth
>
>
> I've no idea what sort of bandwidth bt has, but I wouldn't have
thought
> it's that high, I suspect (even if you could run IP over it) that it
> would be a little on the slow side.
>
> Alan Shields
> mail@xxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 7 Nov 2003, at 22:35, Stephen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just bought a bluetooth dongle to connect my ipaq to my
pc.
> > Rtaher than buy radio network cards for pcs, could I not buy
dongles
> > for each and have a bluetooth network, or isn't it that easy?
> >
> > Thanks.
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