[Malvern] Infra-Red versus BlueTooth

[Angus Clarke]

I thought IR and BT were both low speed, for transferring small amounts 
of data (it reminds me of UDP packets!)
Probably not suitable for backing up to your home PC.

A 100Mb Switch is dirt cheap these days, and if you dont want the wires, 
wireless LAN cards aren't frighteningly expensive either.

If you must use IR or BT, I would go with BT as line-of-site isnt an 
issue, whereas it is with IR.
Don't know about transfer speeds for either technology, but BT is newer!

Regards

Angus


Ian Pascoe wrote:

>Hi Guys
>
>I have got myself a new mobile through work which has both BT and IR on it.
>The new laptop shortly to follow will have a BT adaptor on it.  However, I
>intend to use my home PC as a backup storage device and therefore will need
>to get it an adaptor.
>
>There appears to be both USB and PCI adaptors on the market.  Has anyone had
>experience on using these and thoughts on preferance?  It looks like BT
>would be the favourite as more mobile devices use this ie PDAs, GPS
>receivers etc, and I believe I can get higher and more accurate transfer
>rates.
>
>Thanks guys
>
>Ian
>
>PS  The IVR has been put to bed for the while as although the programming
>side of things was not too difficult - trying to find a driver that provided
>the necesary interfaces was, and I have no idea on how to even start
>constructing new or frigging existing drivers.
>  
>
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