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xocal
October 23rd, 2005, 05:03 PM
I have a small office with two pc's and a laptop.
I also have three Bluetooth Dongles and would like to use them to create a Lan within the office.
Is there a well proved system/manual that I could access for info on doing this as efficiently as possible?
If I got a wireless router in place of my basic Broadband router, could I link all three to use the broadband facility?? or must I install wireless cards to do so??

z1p
October 23rd, 2005, 06:23 PM
I have a small office with two pc's and a laptop.
I also have three Bluetooth Dongles and would like to use them to create a Lan within the office.
Is there a well proved system/manual that I could access for info on doing this as efficiently as possible?
If I got a wireless router in place of my basic Broadband router, could I link all three to use the broadband facility?? or must I install wireless cards to do so??
What version(s) of windows are you running? You could set up a BT network and then using ICS(internet Connection Sharing), a software bridge, or some other connection sharing software to share the broadband connection through one of the machines. This would be slow....

You're better off getting a router and connecting the PCs to the router with either cat5 or wirelessly.

I had a bluetooth network setup with ICS for a while. It worked ok for simple website browsing, but you didn't want to try running anything like audio or video over it. I also found that it was sensitive to configuration changes.