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Arrgghh, talk about timing!!
Authored by: TC!! on Aug 22, '05 11:09:53AM

This is the first hint I saw after getting my internet connection back.
I had moved my computer setup into another room but finally got fed up with losing my wireless signal and just finished moving it all back!
One question though, how do you turn bluetooth back on if you have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse? As the warning message tells me when i try to turn it off:
"You cannot control your computer if you turn Bluetooth off at this time as you would lose your input devices."



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Arrgghh, talk about timing!!
Authored by: tomofdarkness on Aug 22, '05 12:44:06PM

you could write a simple automator action or applescript to do things in order with a delay between each step... then you won't suffer when you lose control :)



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Nonsense, Wifi dosn't interfere with Bluetooth
Authored by: macubergeek on Aug 23, '05 05:49:27AM

Bluetooth does not interfere with wifi.
It's a frequency hopping technology designed to NOT interfere with existing frequencies.
With wifi, you stay on one channel (frequency) within the 2.4 GHz spectrum. With Bluetooth, your device hops frequencies 1600 times a second among 79 different frequencies. If there is a frequency collision(interference) then the connection is broken for less then a milisecond. Realisticly more than a dozen people can sit in the same room and use bluetooth without significant interference.



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Nonsense, Wifi dosn't interfere with Bluetooth
Authored by: gunkmail on Aug 25, '05 10:11:44AM

Unfortunatley you are wrong. While they do use different protocols as you suggested, the fact that they are in the same frequency range does cause interference. This would be like saying Microwaves and fridges do not cause Wi-Fi interference because they are not trying to ccommunicate the same way that the computer is. The amount of impact will depend on many other environmental factors but there will be some impact, whether or not you can notice it.

www.cwnp.com

That all being said, and since i do not use bluetooth i turned it off the first time i received one of these disconnects. It didn't fix the problem



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