From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 8 4:55:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from survis.surfnet.nl (survis.surfnet.nl [192.87.108.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6745637B5C6 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 04:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl) Received: from spock.ncc-1701.surfnet.nl ([192.87.111.34]) by survis.surfnet.nl with ESMTP (exPP) id 13M7yV-0005Qh-00; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:55:15 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:57:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl X-Sender: rvdp@spock.ncc-1701.surfnet.nl To: Robert Swindells Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Bluetooth (was: Irda support) In-Reply-To: <200008051233.NAA00696@fdy2.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: Organisation: SURFnet bv Address: "Radboudburcht, P.O. Box 19035, 3501 DA Utrecht, NL" Phone: +31 302 305 305 Telefax: +31 302 305 329 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Robert Swindells wrote: > Bluetooth only gives you 1Mbps, IRDA will do up to 4Mbps. Or is it worse: 434 Kbps symmetrical or 723 Kbps up/58 Kbps down? > I have found > it to be more reliable than IRDA though, and obviously it works over > greater distances. Hmm, do you already have Bluetooth equipment? Can you buy it in the stores in the UK? What do you have? > The phone manufacturers must have finalized their GPRS phone designs by > now. Since Bluetooth won't be usable in time, it would make sense for > them to continue to include IRDA. Or just use IEEE 802.11b :-) > In addition, you can't just hack together your own Bluetooth stack > and use it, you need to get it approved which is *very* expensive. That's ridiculous! > This is going to make it hard to produce a usable Open Source stack, > since the approval is for the stack/board/antenna combination. Hmm, can they stop the community from writing a public domain stack? The specs seem to be online and open. Do they really want to stop the BSD, Linux, etc community from supporting Bluetooth? > I would say that there is still a window of 18-24 months where IRDA > support will be useful. After that, I would expect the UTMS phones to > become Bluetooth only. Yes, I am afraid so. But hopefully a KISS version with higher bandwidth. rvdp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message