Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 06:12, Alexander McLeay wrote: What sort of speed does this give you? Is it actually good enough for It's assumed Bluetooth 2.0 EDR will allow about 2mbit. VoIP over Bluetooth IP to be practical? Plenty fast for that. I think Speex can run on as little as

speex codec down to 2kbit/s instead of 2kbyte/s Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Gabriel! Gabriel Ambuehl schrieb am Donnerstag, den 18. Januar 2007 um 08:55h: VoIP over Bluetooth IP to be practical? Plenty fast for that. I think Speex can run on as little as 2kbyte/s. Ohhhmmm I've tested 1kByte/s bewteen two asterisks this is a quite good quality. Remember that GSM

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Jean-Philippe Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070118 03:38]: On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:25, you wrote: Thankfully most of this can be done over Bluetooth. At least with linux computers you'll be able to access it as a network device, and you'll be able to run smb or sshfs albeit at

Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-17 Thread Chad
Thankfully most of this can be done over Bluetooth. At least with linux computers you'll be able to access it as a network device, and you'll be able to run smb or sshfs albeit at reduced speed. Neos won't be islands, even when untethered from USB. :) - Chad

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Monteiro
On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:25, you wrote: Thankfully most of this can be done over Bluetooth. At least with linux computers you'll be able to access it as a network device, and you'll be able to run smb or sshfs albeit at reduced speed. Neos won't be islands, even when untethered from

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-17 Thread Rod Whitby
Jean-Philippe Monteiro wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:25, you wrote: Thankfully most of this can be done over Bluetooth. At least with linux computers you'll be able to access it as a network device, and you'll be able to run smb or sshfs albeit at reduced speed. Neos won't be

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Monteiro
Need to set up a server though, it won't just access my Linksys Box :( It will access your Linksys NSLU2 running SlugOS with a bluetooth USB dongle plugged into it, sitting beside your Linksys Router ... I do this today with the Treo 650 to get bluetooth network coverage in my house. --

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-17 Thread Rod Whitby
Jean-Philippe Monteiro wrote: Need to set up a server though, it won't just access my Linksys Box :( It will access your Linksys NSLU2 running SlugOS with a bluetooth USB dongle plugged into it, sitting beside your Linksys Router ... I do this today with the Treo 650 to get bluetooth network

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-17 Thread Rod Whitby
Alexander McLeay wrote: On 1/18/07, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I also connect to IRC, can ssh, and surf the web, all over the bluetooth connection. I expect to be able to do the same with the Neo, except that it will be a true PAN BT connection rather than the ppp over serial