| reply to KrK
This has nothing to do with bluetooth. Adhoc Wifi isn't going to replace Bluetooth. Do you all forget what Bluetooth is and why it was created? Wifi uses a LOT of power. If I enable Wifi on my Phone/PDA my battery will be dead in 4 hours. I enable Bluetooth on my phone and I get about 1 and a half days. Bluetooth was invented to be a short distance LOW power wireless transmission protocol. Bluetooth doesn't have much security because after about 5' the signal is so weak it's worthless, to hack someone with Bluetooth you almost need to be sitting in their lap or have a power boosting directional antenna (and I'm not even sure that would work because you can probably boost your signal to the device but the device isn't going to be boosting it's return signal, so you can talk to it from a distance but you can't hear a response).
Making Adhoc automatic doesn't make wifi competitive with Bluetooth because of the power issue. Until you can provide a protocol that uses less power than Bluetooth (less than 5 milliwatts) you aren't going to replace it. (as an aside, this lack of distance is about 90% of the Bluetooth complaints you will hear, I've seen devices that didn't work if it was more than 1' from the receiving device) |
