[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

For the BlueTooth w/s on 15 Sep

http://trilug.org/2012-09-bluetooth

participants can purchase a bluetooth dongle for about $40 
(link on announcment page).

Looking into this, there's a UD100 and a UD100-G03

http://www.neteon.net/products/serial/serial-to-wireless/bluetooth-serial-adapter/accessories/parani-ud100.html

>From the specs and photos, they look identical. I expect 
none of us on this list know the difference. I've asked Bill 
and Alan to see if the presenter can tell us.

The device has a range of 300m. There is a R-SMA connector 
on the device. The external antennae available are a 5dbi 
dipole for <$10 and a 9dbi patch for $54. Bang for buck the 
5dbi dipole seems worth having.

I've also asked Bill and Alan to see what the presenter 
thinks of the antennas.

The presenter gave a talk at CarolinaCon this year. I 
remember the BlueTooth talk as the best technical talk. At 
the time I thought this is too bad, since I don't use 
BlueTooth. The reason I don't use BlueTooth is because I 
couldn't get it working in Linux a couple of years ago, 
while it worked out of the box with Windows. As the speaker 
at CarolinaCon described, the problem I had was that I only 
had about half of the code needed to get BlueTooth working, 
and the speaker described the considerable trouble he had to 
locate the required code from disparate sources, and get it 
to work for himself.

I've asked Bill and Alan to see if they can get a list of 
the require code and install instructions, from the speaker, 
before the talk/w-s, so we're not starting from 0 when we 
arrive with our dongles, and have to sort everything out on 
the day. I'd rather have something working before I arrive, 
than just appear with my box of bits, as they were delivered 
by FedEx.

Joe

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