bluetooth for wireless internet

Posted by jagger2k
i have 2 bluetooth dongles, and i have a laptop, how can i share my internet conection from my pc with the laptop? also how fast would it be?

Posted by ragupathi
You can use two bluetooth and make a LAN connection and share the connection . I dont know the speed levels its depend On the transfer speed between two bt dongles

Posted by DJcreamz
It would be easy also if you have XP as ICS is an easy process to complete

Posted by jagger2k
i have both pc and laptop on xp, ones home ones pro, both have sp2.

Posted by EastCoastStar
should be quick and easy. idk how stable it will be or how fast, but let us know!

Posted by jagger2k
so do anybody have a guide or somthing to help me get it working?

Posted by jagger2k
bupm, comon people i need a guide on how to set it up and get it running, please.

Posted by ten18
is a guide really nessasary? it sounds fairly simple. just create a Lan connection between the pc and the laptop.
il try find u a guide later on if u need it.

Posted by jagger2k
cheers. that would help me alot.

Posted by Davo_169
ummm bluetooth only goes to ten metres, why dont you just get an ethernet cable to connect the two, probably more reliable

Posted by jagger2k
i am aware of the range. comone a guide or somthing would be nice.

Posted by bungle123
goin Ta try this myself tomorrow!
so will let u know how i get on!

Posted by Cycovision
I'm not sure this is possible without third-party software. I've certainly never seen anything in the windows XP networking side of things that suggest a native way of using BT as a wireless networking device?

Of course, if you can use a BT connection to surf the web on your phone using your computers connection, then there's no reason why you couldn't do it with a laptop but I really don't think that XP has built in functionality for doing this. It might be worth searching for an application that does though.

Posted by bungle123
well i have tried,
i have pc and laptop talking to each other,
and then enable my pc to share my broadband..
but the laptops having none of it.

laptop only has service pack 1 on it, may be something to do with that or the fact each of my dongles have different software

i will keep trying

bungle

Posted by Cycovision
It probably won't be anything to do the dongles software, SP2 does have extra BT functionality though.

Let me know if you do manage to get them sharing internet over bluetooth without using additional software, would you? That would definately be worth knowing in my line of work!

Posted by jagger2k
is there a faq or step by step to help me set this up then??