Subj : Re: Learned something new
To   : Ed Vance
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Jul 28 2024 15:42:00

ED VANCE wrote:
>> AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:
> The BT device I saw has a CAT-5 Jack on one end and a stubby antenna on the
> other end. No USB connector was visible. I think it was BT v4.0 .

The only thing I can find like that is for controlling solar 
installations. The ones matched to the solar control equipment start at $30.

But you can get a USB to Bluetooth dongle for about ten bucks.

I still don't think it will do what you want.

> A v4  adapter doesn't have the range as v5 or the V6 but I think it could be
> used from one side of the house to the other side (40 feet).
> I have been thinking of finding out Manufactures names and looking at their
> pages , You wrote Gator Cable, I will look at their website.

Gatorcable and Jacobsparts are two I've bough a bunch of small computer 
bits from. Jacobs is really good for USB and network cables in odd but 
useful lengths (like one foot, for ports that get used a lot, so the 
cable's port wears out instead of the port on the motherboard... they're 
only rated for a few hundred plug/unplug cycles). Gator has more weird 
adapters.

> I didn't know BT was less secure. I would had thought it out doing Wi-Fi .
> (But I don't know it all, just act like I do)

LOL. Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to 
those of us who actually do. <g>

> Your BT on the XP64 box, is it v4 or later?

<looks>
Bluetooth HCI 2.0, LMP 2.0
Tolda it was old.
But it has a driver for XP.

The nice thing about wifi-USB dongles, they usually don't need a 
separate driver. They just work. I have them scattered all over the 
place, for whenever the cabling isn't convenient. Tho at best they are 
very slow compared to wired network.
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