Return-Path: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:40:25 +0100 From: Stefan Seyfried To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: weak bt? Message-ID: <20100119164025.29a32372@strolchi.home.s3e.de> In-Reply-To: <201001161038.49294.gene.heskett@verizon.net> References: <201001161038.49294.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Gene, On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:38:49 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > The devices are about 16 to 18 feet and the house wooden > flooring apart as the legacy machine is in the basement. > > Is this distance what would be called fringe area in tv reception? Or should > it be working better than this? "It depends". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Uses At my last job, I had an Aircable "dongle", similar to the http://www.aircable.net/host-xr2.html (but in a box more like the Aircable Industrial XR), and it was really astonishing how many bluetooth devices it could see (> 20), when the builtin BT adapter saw 2 or three. So it really depends on the hardware. -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out."