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Old September 19th 17, 09:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul[_32_]
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Default Connecting a Kindle Fire

Ken Springer wrote:
On 9/17/17 11:13 PM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know how to connect a Kindle Fire to Windows 8 using the
network and not a direct connection"



The Wifi recipe here, I think it assumes you have a Wifi router
and are not attempting an Adhoc connection. Adhoc is Wifi point to
point, whereas infrastructure assumes a router.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/help/custom...deId=201730020


https://www.howtogeek.com/180649/htg...tructure-mode/



https://www.howtogeek.com/178691/htg...-does-it-work/


Some of the Kindles use Android as their OS, and may share
features with it.


They have an Wi-Fi router, that is how she is connected to their printer
from her laptop.

Both of them have W8 laptops, and she needed/wanted to download a file
from his new Kindle to his laptop. She was trying to get Bluetooth to
work, but was frustrated with the slow speed.

He is not that computer literate, and has no patience with them.

I have been trying to get her to network everything they have to
simplify file transfer. The same as I've been trying to do with my
computers. (Which keeps breaking on the Windows end. To use a possible
Trumpism.... "So frustrating". LOL

I don't know if his Kindle is Android based or not.

At any rate, she finally got Bluetooth figured out, and just waited it out.

But I have passed those links on to her, maybe they will provide the
impetus to get her to use Wi Fi instead. Now, if I could just get her
to set her computer up to automatically back up her system, rather than
doing everything manually.


One of the Bluetooth standards, actually uses the Wifi
for "parallel transfer" if available. However, I haven't
run into any people (yet) claiming to be transferring
files over that, faster than plain Bluetooth can manage.
The original Bluetooth might be sub 1MB/sec for some
of the profiles like audio.

Considering the amount of trouble I've had with Bluetooth
here, I think I'd sooner fight with Wifi :-) I know
in some cases "it just works (tm)", but not for me.

I think the Kindle started out, as a pretty custom device,
with special LCD panel (a kind of panel intended for book
reading, where the pixels may update slowly, but the
panel uses very little power). Eventually, the maker
decided the business model required too much engineering
and the idea was to use more conventional base (Android)
and hardware materials. (More like an Android-based
computer, running a Kindle application.) It's likely
the older designs would have run longer on battery.
The original panels might have been reflective, while
the current ones are backlit and transmissive. That
sort of difference.

from Wiki

"Amazon announced Kindle Fire, an Android-based tablet
that uses a fork of Android on September 28, 2011. It
was released for $199 and has a 7-inch IPS color
touchscreen display. This was the first Kindle without
an E Ink display. However unlike previously released Kindles,
it has no 3G option only Wi-Fi"

and that marks the transition to "bog-standard hardware
you can get anywhere". No more E-ink display, means you
could get any ODM that makes mobile devices to manufacture
them for you. The IPS in the above description, means
the viewing angle on the thing is 178 degrees. If you
move your head from side to side, there should be little
color shift (unlike with TN panels).

Paul
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