If you already have a wireless network for your computer, you may very interested in what happens next. What if you loved your PDA, cell phone, MP3 player, and almost everything to be able to connect your wireless computer? That is the reality …
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With a wireless network with your personal gadgets often called PAN, which stands for Personal Area Network. The idea is that in the future, we have selected all laptops with batteries and they no longer need to connect cables to it at all – it simply lays your Bluetooth device near the computer and the computer and can use it to see directly.
Bluetooth is available and is since 1999, and only becoming more popular. There is designed to be safe, cheap and easy to use from day one.
There are two categories of people with Bluetooth Class 1 and Class 2 Class 2 is the most common and least expensive standard, so you use the devices to 10 meters (feet 32). The class is a rare, but you can still find the devices that use it fairly easily and has a range of ten times: 100 meters or 320 meters.
How does it work?
Bluetooth is more flexible than the 802.11 wireless network, in exchange for shorter distances. Basically, the Bluetooth-enabled computer a Bluetooth receiver is installed, and this receiver can be used up to seven Bluetooth devices nearby. At the other end is a Wi-Fi equipment is not required when you install Bluetooth support – it is already integrated.
Such as 802.11, Bluetooth uses radio signals to create bandwidth. No, but, like the older style mouse or wireless keyboard, which the beneficiary is required to be connected to a port on your computer, and does not have stability comparable to the beach or Bluetooth.
Many computers now come with integrated Bluetooth, especially Apple Macs. If the Bluetooth connection to a computer that does not add not come with it preinstalled, you must be able to use a Bluetooth USB adapter, although internal Bluetooth device installed on your computer. If you have a laptop and a PCMCIA slot have parts, you can get Bluetooth cards for that.
What can you do with Bluetooth?
Mobile phones with Bluetooth are very popular, the fact sheet – is calendar, address book and instant synchronization with a computer, a useful feature. In addition, almost everything would be normal with the USB cable can use Bluetooth, including digital cameras, MP3 players, printers and even a mouse and keyboard. If you through the list of Bluetooth-Profile”Look (type of device, in theory, could be compatible Bluetooth), it includes wireless phones, fax, headset, and even videos.
In fact, more than anything, Bluetooth is a replacement for USB: some say that any network wireless 802.11 wireless Ethernet, Bluetooth Wireless USB.
Not just for computers.
Part of the strength of Bluetooth is that it is not just used to things is to connect to computers – can be almost anything, to connect something else, when the two Bluetooth enabled and recognize each other.
Mobiles, in particular benefit from it. Bluetooth hands-free headsets often use to communicate with the phone. Some vehicles, for example, now has on-board computers that connect to a Bluetooth mobile phone and lets you hands-free, regardless of where the phone in the car (even if you left your bag in the trunk!)
In addition, of course, to communicate with Bluetooth devices. This has sent some people to messages from their Bluetooth PDAs to others in the vicinity – not a very useful feature, but very pleasant. This is called “Bluejacking, and the first known case is the one who sent the message to your Nokia Bluetooth someone while they meet in the bank. What is the message?” Buy Ericsson “.
Since then, it is possible to send pictures bluejacking, and is widely regarded as the newest advertising medium – Yes, it can send messages to bulletin boards in your cell phone, a practice known as “Bluecasting”. Do you think it’s cool or disturbing, Of course, it is your choice.