01-13-2003, 12:07 AM
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Neophyte
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Best Way to Connect Ipaq 3975 Bluetooth to My DSL for Internet Access
I have an ipaq 3975 that's Bluetooth enabled. What's the best way to connect it to my home network to get internet access? I also have a 802.11 wireless network in my home and cat 5 cable everywhere. I am trying any way I can to avoid getting a sleeve and CF card.
Thanks for the help![/b]
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01-13-2003, 01:26 AM
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Contributing Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Two choices: either get a Bluetooth adapter for your desktop or get a Bluetooth access point. The latter is the best but may cost you some more $$.
http://www.expansys.us/d_bluetooth.asp is a good place to start to see the variety of BT products available. Mind you, in the US Expansys is not usually the cheapest vendor, but they do have a really convenient catalog.
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01-13-2003, 02:20 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
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You could also get an 802.11b card for your iPaq. There are several compact flash and PCMCIA solutions available. You would, however, have to buy an expansion sleeve to get either to work. Here are some speed tests i've done on 802.11b on the iPaq to give you at least a general overview of the speeds you're going to get:
http://www.pdajunkie.net/wirelessinetspeedtest.htm |
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01-13-2003, 02:26 AM
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Neophyte
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Any word yet on the availability of a SDIO 802.11b card? I though for sure somebody would announce at CES last week.
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01-13-2003, 02:27 AM
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Philosopher
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I'm pretty sure someone did announce one....
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01-13-2003, 02:28 AM
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Philosopher
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I'm pretty sure someone did announce one.... But the problem would be power consumption and range. I did a review of the iPaq 5400 and the power consumption was a pretty big problem. But, it does have a knobby antenna which gets the same range as a PCMCIA Orinoco Gold Card. I wonder what a SD card would get range wise with such a small antenna....
Take a look at the benchmarkes here: http://www.pdajunkie.net/wirelessinetspeedtest.htm
and the article here: http://www.pdajunkie.net/wirelessinet5400.htm |
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01-13-2003, 03:01 AM
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seanturner, imatrout specifically said he wants to avoid a sleeve.
imatrout, SanDisk announced earlier this week in CES of its intention of releasing SD WiFi solutions. In fact, we had an announcement of the fact on the front page.
--janak
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01-13-2003, 03:02 AM
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Philosopher
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
seanturner, imatrout specifically said he wants to avoid a sleeve.
--janak
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Oh, sorry, didn't catch that... |
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01-13-2003, 04:04 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
...SanDisk announced earlier this week in CES of its intention of releasing SD WiFi solutions...
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Now THAT'S something I can use. I absolutely love my Phone Edition, but miss the WiFi capability. And, now that I've upgraded it to 128MB of internal memory, I can afford to pop out the SD memory card and use a WiFi instead.
I can't wait! |
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01-13-2003, 04:11 AM
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Contributing Editor
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Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
I can't wait!
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Yes you can, because the PPC PE has no SDIO support yet. :cry:
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