[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Rob Rousseau]

I use Bluetooth to transfer files between my computer and my cell phone.
-Rob

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 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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