[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Steve Litt wrote:

> What would be the benefit of having bluetooth on a 
> computer? What could you do with it?

The real problem is that bluetooth is so badly supported in 
linux that no-one has found much to do with it. The only 
connectivity we have that isn't a physical wire, is wifi. 
Presumably much of the low bandwidth usb, serial or ethernet 
cabling we use, at least for personal/home type use, could 
be replaced by bluetooth. I don't think  it scales to large 
numbers of users/connections and I don't know how secure it 
is. I expect it's like ad-hoc wifi.

Joe

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