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Old 05-27-2006, 02:16 AM
Damion Chaplin
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Nope, sorry. Two different beasts. Put simply, Bluetooth is for direct device-to-device communication and WiFi is for device-to-server connection (via router, modem etc.). Device-to-device over Wifi is possible only with the router.

More info on WiFi here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wifi
More info on Bluetooth here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth
Be sure to check out the links referring to WLAN and PAN.
 
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