Mike MacCana wrote:
Aye, it is indeed. /dev/rfcomm0 is your serial port, your phone is your modem.
And all for a mere $3.38 per MB. Thanks Optus!
It is provided as WAP service by telecom companies.
Bluetooth is tremendously cost-effective and flexible as a wirless networking solution for Domestic or specialised networking setup compare to wifi-NIC or the traditional hardwire.
Apart from being price-competitive it has wide range of connectivity providing the devices one interconnects are bluetooth enabled. It truely is a maturing alternative to 'spaghetti-like' connectivity for domestic and commercial devices.
Whilst Bluetooth specifications says it is class 2 (range of up to 10m) there are Bluetooth adaptors that are class 1 (range of up to 100m). Of course, there are Bluetooth devices that are class 3, like bluetooth enabled-mouse (keyboard).
Whether it is LAN, Dial-Up, Mouse, Keyboard, Headset, PIM, HomePhones, MobilePhones, etc., Bluetooth has the answer. I'll venture on to say it is a concept for the future but is here now.
I have eliminated 90% of spaghetti wires with the connectivity of my devices at home. This is the case because Bluetooth is now supported in Linux kernels (from 2.4.4 onwards even a lot better with 2.6.9-rc3) as default. Things are happening very quickly.
How exciting !
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