Re: [lfs-chat] Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?
On 07/29/2019 10:21 AM, Andy Bennett wrote:
Hi,
This is not LFS specific. But I've post to a LUG and a distro specific
mailing list. No responses even touched on the my *EXPLICIT* question
-- What should I be reading. Responders insist I should want what
their identical setup. G ;<
Sneakernet for file transfer has become annoying.
Ethernet is undesirable in my environment so I am only interested in
wireless.
I have only a few machines a max of 6' apart.
My usage would typically be peer-to-peer but I want to communicate
between any two machines.
My web connectivity is via a T-Mobile WiFi Hotspot (WiFi turned off).
I run Debian 9.8.
Can you use the hotspot as an access point? Often they work for a
handful of clients. If so, just use that and connect all the machines
via Wifi.
It's poorly documented. I suspect it is intended to connect any WiFi
equipped machine to the internet. I've seen no indication of capability
of communication among machine ;{
Thanks.
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Re: [lfs-chat] Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?
Hi, This is not LFS specific. But I've post to a LUG and a distro specific mailing list. No responses even touched on the my *EXPLICIT* question -- What should I be reading. Responders insist I should want what their identical setup. G ;< Sneakernet for file transfer has become annoying. Ethernet is undesirable in my environment so I am only interested in wireless. I have only a few machines a max of 6' apart. My usage would typically be peer-to-peer but I want to communicate between any two machines. My web connectivity is via a T-Mobile WiFi Hotspot (WiFi turned off). I run Debian 9.8. Can you use the hotspot as an access point? Often they work for a handful of clients. If so, just use that and connect all the machines via Wifi. Best wishes, @ndy -- andy...@ashurst.eu.org http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ 0x7EBA75FF -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[lfs-chat] Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?
This is not LFS specific. But I've post to a LUG and a distro specific mailing list. No responses even touched on the my *EXPLICIT* question -- What should I be reading. Responders insist I should want what their identical setup. G ;< Sneakernet for file transfer has become annoying. Ethernet is undesirable in my environment so I am only interested in wireless. I have only a few machines a max of 6' apart. My usage would typically be peer-to-peer but I want to communicate between any two machines. My web connectivity is via a T-Mobile WiFi Hotspot (WiFi turned off). I run Debian 9.8. I've just begun reading - primarily Wikipedia articles and some links from them. My primary question is "What should I be reading?" in order to ask appropriate questions. Specifically "What?" and "Why?" much more than "Howto?". A concern is security issues. Bluetooth, being short range, may thus have an advantage. Speed is not an issue for my expected usage. (I was one of my ISP's last 6 dial-up clients ;) UPDATE: Since originally posting the above, I'm focusing more on a WiFi than Bluetooth solution. Although I did find a Bluetooth article which gave a reasonably good description the topology/protocol I envisioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_area_network says in part: A Bluetooth WPAN is also called a piconet, and is composed of up to 8 active devices in a master-slave relationship (a very large number of additional devices can be connected in "parked" > mode). The first Bluetooth device in the piconet is the master, and all ther devices are slaves that communicate with the master. TIA -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
