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Network access though a Bluetooth Access Point
Authored by: Andrew Mair on Apr 30, '03 04:18:12PM

This is working well for me: G4 350, 10.2.5, 640MB, Inventel BlueDSL bluetooth access point (and adsl modem). The access point was bought cheapish off eBay and with a couple of dongles (D-link for G4 and Tecom for the laptop) seemed an inexpensive way of wirelessly sharing an adsl connection with my wife's Compaq laptop (Windows ME): an alternative to 802.11b. The laptop has always connected seemlessly with the the access point and given my wife the freedom to surf from anywhere within a 30 foot radius or so. A great success over many months. My G4 experience was less happy until I read this tip. Under 10.1.x my G4 would find the access point, give me an internet connection that worked for varying short periods and then dropped. It is entirely possible that I failed to set bluetooth up properly for the G4: the whole bluetooth area seems poorly documented and in places downright obscure. Under 10.2.x until now I have not bothered to revisit the issue and have continued to connect the G4 to the access point via ethernet cable link. Now perhaps I can finally consign the access point a convenient corner and lose that trailing phone cord. What about speeds? Well the bluetooth route is somewhat slower: typically with an ethernet link to my access point I get download speeds of around 460 kbps. I have just tested with a bluetooth connection and got 433kbps. Thanks for a very useful tip.



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