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Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

stallard writes "Yahoo! news reports that "The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) Monday is releasing a three-year road map for Bluetooth short-range wireless technology that includes a tripling of bandwidth and the ability to multicast signals to seven other users.""

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  1. Short range? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hardly short range. You can increase Bluetooth's range to a full mile, with a simple, inexpensive modification.

    1. Re:Short range? by VeriTea · · Score: 5, Informative

      No, the parent poster is correct when he calls it illegal. The FCC regulations that Bluetooth operate under do not specify transmitter power, they specify effective radiated power (ERP). That means that modifying / changing the antenna to get a more focused beam (thus increasing the effective radiated power) is just as illegal as increasing the transmitter power.

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  2. Re:bluetooth bandwidth by Cranston+Snord · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, bluetooth's physical bandwidth is only 721kb. It's amazing what google will tell you if you ask it.

    http://www.mobileinfo.com/Bluetooth/FAQ.htm#t5
    http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1086977875.html

    There should be a -1 (Don't know jack shit) mod option. On the other hand, I'm glad you've mastered your buzzwords.

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