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How to connect to interner using a Bluetooth

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by onlineph

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Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to connect to internet using a bluetooth USB. I was thinkin it last night and I myself don't know the answer. Perhaps you experts have an idea.

Thanks

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by older mycroft

What would EACH end be connected to ?

Clearly a Bluetooth USB on its own would achieve anything.

by onlineph

I see that a bluetooth USB can get surf the net.

I am trying things that I am realy ignorant but I want to know if its possible.

When I saw a bluetooth by CISCO, which has a transfer speed of 10mbps I remember the smartbro product by smart telecom. I was wondering if I could turn my 10mbps bluetooth to connect to internet using my IP address. (I have DSL installed but I was wandering if I could use my bluetooth in accesing my internet instead of puting my LAMN wire in my PC) I have a laptop and if only I could use my blutooth as a modem to access my internet then I could use it in my laptop anywhere, right?

But these are ony ideas in my head, I don;t even know how to start?

Do you have an idea how to instead of using your wired DSL, the blutooth could be the once accessing the internet?

by older mycroft

So using Bluetooth you are dropping your data rate from 100Mbps to 10Mbps.

Also Bluetooth in ONLY a means of communication (like Wireless) - it is a form of radio signal. In itself it is NOT a modem, nor is it an internet connector. It is only a means of connecting two other devices without using wires.

To connect your PC to your modem by Bluetooth, the modem requires a Bluetooth capability of its own. Your USB Bluetooth doesn't replace the modem, it ONLY replaces the cable. :)

by ---tk---

if your laptop has bluetooth, and your PC has bluetooth... you can create a connection between the two, and allow the laptop to pass through the PC's internet connection, by bridging the two nic's... but if you are trying to connect to a PC from a PDA, some cell carriers block some Bluetooth functionality.

I got bored a couple years back, and tried this out... and I was able to surf the net through bluetooth... it was pretty slow though...

by robo_dev

and if you have HSPDA (3G) service, you can get a respectable 1Mbs of thruput.

by ---tk---

I haven't messed with a cell phone, I have verizon, they disable FTP and other data transfers through their firmware... BLA... Although I can not speak for sprint, but I would think they do the same thing...

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