Use of Bluetooth to test programs.

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 07:30, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> Le mer. 21 août 2019 à 01:52, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> I'm very ignorant of Bluetooth and of WiFi.
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>> I appear to have two Ubuntu laptops that are "Bluetooth enabled", and I am wondering on a very cursory level whether these computers can use Bluetooth in lieu of a WiFi router to test two instances of a program that uses Java sockets to exchange information peer to peer..
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>> I am using WiFi when I test my programs at home, but cannot use WifFi if a router isn't available - when I am demonstrating these programs to others, say.
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>> What are my options?
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> You can turn one of your Ubuntu machines into a WiFi hotspot and use the other as a client device.
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> https://askubuntu.com/questions/318973/how-do-i-create-a-wifi-hotspot-sharing-wireless-internet-connection-single-adap

Are those instructions up do date?  It is six years old.  I would look
for more recent instructions rather than following those.

Colin

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