Bluetooth: why no HS?

Steffen Becker steffen.becker at tu-ilmenau.de
Mon Oct 8 08:54:16 UTC 2012


Dick Dowdell schrieb:
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Steffen Becker  wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
>  sorry for my bad english:
>  I have a windows PC and a virtual machine with two Ubuntu12.04
> systems in it.
>  I inserted two Bluetooth 3.0+HS Dongles in the PC and created
> USB-filters in the virtual machine for these: as one bluetooth3.0+HS
> dongle has two chips inside (one for bluetooth-, one for
> 802.11g-standard) I created a filter for Bluetooth and for 802.11g
> adapter for each of my two Ubuntu systems.
>  After starting both Ubuntu systems parallel, each of them
> successfully recognized the Bluetooth-adapter. Also the
> 802.11g-adapter was recognized ("ifconfig" displayed a
> "wlan"-adapter).
>  So I tried to send some big data files over bluetooth between these
> two virtual Ubuntu systems: This worked well, but only with
> Bluetooth-speed (~2MBit/s) !
>  As I understood, Bluetooth3.0+HS should use the integrated
> 802.11g-adapter to send bigger data files with ~24 MBit/s.
>  What could I've done wrong? Why does bluetooth not use the
> "Highspeed"-modus?
> 
>  Regards,
>  Steffen
> 
>  PS: I tried it with a 10 MB, 20 MB and 50 MB file (.mp3, .wav & .avi)
> 
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> It's very good English!
> 
> 

Thank you!
But as I found out, bluez doesn't even support HS... They will merge it
*maybe* later this year. =(




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