Sunday, September 8, 2002
Bluetooth Networking
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 AM
http://www.pocketpcpower.net/Bluetooth.htm
Ever wanted to learn more about networking with Bluetooth? Sam from Pocket PC Power has written up an excellent article that discusses why he chose Bluetooth over Wifi, how he got it working, and what the results were. Give it a read if you're curious.
For my needs, Bluetooth simply doesn't have the bandwidth - or does it? Sam mentions 723 Kbps (big K) as the bandwidth, but on this page they say it's 723 kbps (little K). The former is more bandwidth than my cable modem can pull anyway, but the latter is only 90 KB/s - not all that fast, especially when I'm transferring large files (something I do quite often). I'm looking forward to the Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard, because if done properly Bluetooth is a great device to device protocol, but I'm not sure I'd want to run a LAN on it. Bluetooth isn't the answer to everything, just as Wifi isn't.
What's your experience with this? Good, bad, ugly?
Ever wanted to learn more about networking with Bluetooth? Sam from Pocket PC Power has written up an excellent article that discusses why he chose Bluetooth over Wifi, how he got it working, and what the results were. Give it a read if you're curious.
For my needs, Bluetooth simply doesn't have the bandwidth - or does it? Sam mentions 723 Kbps (big K) as the bandwidth, but on this page they say it's 723 kbps (little K). The former is more bandwidth than my cable modem can pull anyway, but the latter is only 90 KB/s - not all that fast, especially when I'm transferring large files (something I do quite often). I'm looking forward to the Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard, because if done properly Bluetooth is a great device to device protocol, but I'm not sure I'd want to run a LAN on it. Bluetooth isn't the answer to everything, just as Wifi isn't.
What's your experience with this? Good, bad, ugly?
