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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
On 2017-07-11 08:23, nospam wrote:
In article , Poutnik wrote: So I need to add bluetooth hardware to the desktop PC. Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. Then why do I want bluetooth? I want bluetooth for only two things (but you can suggest more). (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN apparently you aren't aware that it's slower than wifi or usb, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for that. He was not asking for that.. he asked about file transfer. bluetooth is much too slow for file transfer. wifi is several orders of magnitude faster. He is aware of that. In the first post he said so. He can have a legitimate reason why not to connect to a LAN. i didn't say anything about connecting to lan. Yes, you did, on another post: WiFi is impossible for a PC that is not even on a LAN. yes it is, and since it's in your house, why wouldn't it be on a lan? -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
On 2017-07-11 04:43, Dan Jenkins wrote:
Can you get me started on how to connect Android 4.3 to Bluetooth on Windows 10 because I don't have bluetooth yet. I looked up how to tell if my Windows 10 desktop has bluetooth and it doesn't seem to have a bluetooth card based on doing these device tests. http://blog.drivethelife.com/bluetoo...oth-built.html https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-windows-10 So I need to add bluetooth hardware to the desktop PC. Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. Then why do I want bluetooth? I want bluetooth for only two things (but you can suggest more). (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN (2) To play songs from Android onto the more powerful computer speakers Since I don't have bluetooth on the desktop, what hardware is best to add? Unfortunately for you, there is no such thing as "powerful bluetooth" hardware. Even if you find it, you need the phone transmitter to be powerful, and I'm 99% sure it will not be. BT comes as fingernail sized dongles that you plug to an USB port. I got a few, at about 1 or 2 euros, and worked plug and play. Similarly, there are WiFi dongles of the same size, but I have not been lucky with them. Even so, they are cheap, so you can try your luck with one. You need WiFi. Peer to peer, adhoc... or add a WiFi router to your home. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
nospam wrote:
In article , Poutnik wrote: wifi does not need a lan or an access point. it can go direct between two devices. It is well known. it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. FSVSVO "recent", unless you consider 5 years to be "recent". |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
On 7/11/2017 8:44 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
Can you get me started on how to connect Android 4.3 to Bluetooth on Windows 10 because I don't have bluetooth yet. This thread has devolved into a comparison of Bluetooth and LAN transfers. I find there are times that a bluetooth transfer is faster than a LAN transfer, especially when you have to get a passcode, etc. This is the basic procedure to set up a Bluetooth connection. First make sure that both units are set up in the discovery mode. (For convenience set the Bluetooth Icon to appear on taskbar) On the Window 10 Computer (earlier versions are similar) go to the Bluetooth settings. Then add a Bluetooth device. Select the device you wish to add and enter the any series of numbers when requested. When it shows up on the other device enter the exact same series of number. You are now connected To recieve a file on the Computer you must set the computer to Recieve the file. Right Click on the Bluetooth Icon and check recieve. The procedure on your android device should be similar. -- 2017: The year we lean to play the great game of Euchre |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:29:30 +0000 (UTC), Dan Jenkins
wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:02:13 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: Ad hoc WiFi mode might be a possibility. No LAN required. https://www.howtogeek.com/180649/htg-explains-whats-the-difference-between-ad-hoc-and-infrastructure-mode/ Thank you for suggesting a Wi-Fi option because currently there is no bluetooth or Wi-Fi card in the desktop so either would be an option. Would either type of hardware satisfy the requirements of transferring small (megabyte-sized) files and playing songs between Android & Windows? (1) Add a Wi-Fi card to the desktop and put it in "Ad-Hoc Mode" (2) Add a Bluetooth card to the desktop that can go through floors Which do you think would penetrate floors best? Given an otherwise equal choice between WiFi and BT, I would lean strongly toward WiFi. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
In article , micky
wrote: I looked up how to tell if my Windows 10 desktop has bluetooth and it doesn't seem to have a bluetooth card based on doing these device tests. I don't think any deskptops come with bluetooth, unless you have the thing built to spec, but I could be wrong. you're definitely wrong. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote: I want bluetooth for only two things (but you can suggest more). (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN apparently you aren't aware that it's slower than wifi or usb, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for that. Thank you for trying to help but please don't try to help if you're going to completely ignore the original post by suggesting everything I already know and which has nothing whatsoever to do with the original question. Powerful Bluetooth hardware is the correct answer to the question. no it isn't. It would be if such a thing existed :-p it wouldn't, because bluetooth is much too slow for file transfer, no matter how powerful may be. WiFi is impossible for a PC that is not even on a LAN. yes it is, and since it's in your house, why wouldn't it be on a lan? Because there is no LAN in the house? :-) why wouldn't there be a lan in the house? and as i said, it's possible to use wifi without a lan. in fact, all the cool kids are doing it. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
In article , Frank Slootweg
wrote: wifi does not need a lan or an access point. it can go direct between two devices. It is well known. it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. FSVSVO "recent", unless you consider 5 years to be "recent". wifi is ~20 years old, so yes, and its still not widely adopted yet including android, which will be in 'o', a system that doesn't even have an official name. https://developer.android.com/preview/features/wifi-aware.html |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote: So I need to add bluetooth hardware to the desktop PC. Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. Then why do I want bluetooth? I want bluetooth for only two things (but you can suggest more). (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN apparently you aren't aware that it's slower than wifi or usb, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for that. He was not asking for that.. he asked about file transfer. bluetooth is much too slow for file transfer. wifi is several orders of magnitude faster. He is aware of that. In the first post he said so. apparently not, because he still insists on using bluetooth, so clearly he's not aware of just how slow it actually is. He can have a legitimate reason why not to connect to a LAN. i didn't say anything about connecting to lan. Yes, you did, on another post: nope. i said to use wifi. i did not mention a lan at all. In article , nospam wrote: use wifi for file transfer, not bluetooth. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
nospam wrote:
In article , Frank Slootweg wrote: wifi does not need a lan or an access point. it can go direct between two devices. It is well known. it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. FSVSVO "recent", unless you consider 5 years to be "recent". wifi is ~20 years old, so yes, In this context - mobile devices - 5 years is a long time, i.e. *not* "recent", period. so yes, and its still not widely adopted yet including android, which will be in 'o', a system that doesn't even have an official name. We're talking about Wi-Fi Direct, not some future networking facility. Wi-Fi Direct exists in Android (4.1) for *five years*, period. EOD. https://developer.android.com/preview/features/wifi-aware.html |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
In article , Frank Slootweg
wrote: wifi does not need a lan or an access point. it can go direct between two devices. It is well known. it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. FSVSVO "recent", unless you consider 5 years to be "recent". wifi is ~20 years old, so yes, In this context - mobile devices - 5 years is a long time, i.e. *not* "recent", period. the context is *wifi*. mobile devices are not the only devices to use wifi. far from it. so yes, and its still not widely adopted yet including android, which will be in 'o', a system that doesn't even have an official name. We're talking about Wi-Fi Direct, not some future networking facility. Wi-Fi Direct exists in Android (4.1) for *five years*, period. but not wifi aware, which is newer: https://developer.android.com/preview/features/wifi-aware.html |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 02:53:26 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Poutnik wrote: So I need to add bluetooth hardware to the desktop PC. Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. Then why do I want bluetooth? I want bluetooth for only two things (but you can suggest more). (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN apparently you aren't aware that it's slower than wifi or usb, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for that. He was not asking for that.. he asked about file transfer. bluetooth is much too slow for file transfer. wifi is several orders of magnitude faster. That is well known and he knows it. there's no evidence of that. Unless you count the following, copied from the original post, above: Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
In article , Char Jackson
wrote: So I need to add bluetooth hardware to the desktop PC. Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. Then why do I want bluetooth? I want bluetooth for only two things (but you can suggest more). (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN apparently you aren't aware that it's slower than wifi or usb, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for that. He was not asking for that.. he asked about file transfer. bluetooth is much too slow for file transfer. wifi is several orders of magnitude faster. That is well known and he knows it. there's no evidence of that. Unless you count the following, copied from the original post, above: Am I aware that bluetooth is slower than WiFi or USB cable? Yes. and then goes on to insist on using bluetooth for file transfer. (1) To transfer files back & forth without having to join a local LAN the answer is wifi. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 03:23:27 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Poutnik wrote: wifi does not need a lan or an access point. it can go direct between two devices. It is well known. it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. I've been aware of, and have made limited use of, ad hoc WiFi networks since the early to mid 90's. I don't know if I'd call that recent. |
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Connecting Android to Windows 10 by adding bluetooth
nospam wrote:
In article , Frank Slootweg wrote: wifi does not need a lan or an access point. it can go direct between two devices. It is well known. it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. FSVSVO "recent", unless you consider 5 years to be "recent". wifi is ~20 years old, so yes, In this context - mobile devices - 5 years is a long time, i.e. *not* "recent", period. the context is *wifi*. Nope! *YOU* wrote (see above): it's not well known, as it's a fairly recent addition to the spec and only recent wifi radios support it. You're not seriously claiming that WiFi is "not well known", are you!? mobile devices are not the only devices to use wifi. far from it. Duh! I.e. red-herring. so yes, and its still not widely adopted yet including android, which will be in 'o', a system that doesn't even have an official name. We're talking about Wi-Fi Direct, not some future networking facility. Wi-Fi Direct exists in Android (4.1) for *five years*, period. but not wifi aware, which is newer: And is yet another one of your red-herrings! Who gives a toss about some *future* networking facility, which is *not* under discussion!? https://developer.android.com/preview/features/wifi-aware.html EOD. |
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