[Sussex] GPRS (and bluetooth)

[Dominic]

The only thing I know about bluetooth is that the range is quite small (10
metres ish).

I was considing getting a bluetooth access point for my network which would
get my IPaq directly on the network, but with this small range, it peobably
isn't worth the expense associated with bluetooth.  I will probably just get
a wireless ethernet card for the PDA and do it that way.

Unless there is a good reason for going bluetooth (hifi/dvd remotes ???), I
wonder about it's usefulness

Thoughts?

Dominic


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dobson" <SDobson at manh.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] GPRS (and bluetooth)


> Andrew
>
>
> On 18 February 2003 at 13:57 Andrew Guard wrote:
> > Do any of you use GPRS service?
>
> Nik was showing it off on his mobile by e-mailing from it in the pub
> last month.
>
> > We are using an Nokia 6310i (Vodafone), connected via USB
> > cable to WinXPpro laptop.
>
> I am thinking of getting a bluetooth card so I can use my Ericsson T39m
> in GPRS mode talking to my laptop (running Debian of course) via
bluetooth.
> As of yet I haven't invested in the bluetooth card.  Does anyone out there
> have a Bluetooth PCMCIA card working with Linux?
>
> > Is there any good site you know on about GPRS service settings.
> I haven't even got that far.
>
> Steve
>
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