2010-08-20 16:52:25

by Han

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Subject: Re: PAN performance

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:59 PM, steven bluez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Han,
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have been using bluetooth PAN to run some personal programs. One
>> thing I noticed is that PAN seems to be very slow (i.e. not up to
>> 3Mbps for BT 2.0). I have bluetooth 2.0 adapters on my laptops and I
>> do SSH over PAN. ?Whenever I run a GUI application (on sshd server), i
>> see the GUI response is very slow. ?It is not video or anything so I
>> don't think it needs up to 3Mbps. Is this slowness over PAN expected?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Han
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>
> I think is depending upon the vendor you have. I had a chip which had no
> issues like yours and the 3mbps doesnt come into the scenario you expect
> instead you? get 1-2mbps in bluetooth. If it's bidi direction it might
> vary...My experience of pan would be around 1.5mpbs MAX

I noticed the difference between chips as well. But i saw the issue
even with one of mine better BT doggles ;-). Btw, I tried to use
"ssh -C -X" options and now the latency is much better.

>
> Regards,
> Steven
>