[Malvern] Infra-Red versus BlueTooth

[Andy Morris]

According to the latest news, BlueTooth security has been hacked and any 
enabled BlueTooth device is now wide open to intrusion and capture - 
they'd have to redesign the software completely to close the hole. I had 
a BT card that I was going to use on my laptop. Forget it, now!


Andy

Angus Clarke wrote:
> 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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