[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Steve Litt]

What would be the benefit of having bluetooth on a computer? What could
you do with it?

Thanks

SteveT

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Mack NA3T said:
> 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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