Bluetooth 2.0 or 2.0+EDR ???

[vdavide]

Has someone tried the real bluetooth speed , for example when connected to internet throught BT internet sharing ?
'cos it's not clear if this device has full BT2.0+EDR speed ( 3 mb/sec about 150Kbytes/sec ) or it's simple 2.0 not EDR ( 750 kb/sec , about 50 Kbytes/sec ).
It's a simple test , you need an usb 2.0+EDR dongle , estabilish a connection throught BT internet sharing ( be sure you are in HSDPA area ) and check your data speed downloading a large file , you can see your downloading data rate ( average ) into the standard Internet explorer download window...
Can someone try this ? I'm interested on this device but need to know also this feature....
THX
Vdavide

[batumulia]

My guess is that it will be BT 2.0+EDR but then again I don't own a HTC TC.

[batumulia]

According to PDADB (http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=801) it comes with Bluetooth 2.0 not the EDR version :(

[sunny123]

I am connected to the internet via orbitII and bluetooth. ~110KB/sec
Hope that helps

[Rongara]

It's 2.0 EDR.

Checked it on my HP Notebook and first it had been connected with a max speed of 700Kbit/s. As my notebook should be EDR-ready I checked drivers and found out that these weren't EDR-capaple. So I installed new driver from the successor and now I'm connected with 2,1Mbit/s :)

[alipi2007]

It's 2.0 EDR.

Checked it on my HP Notebook and first it had been connected with a max speed of 700Kbit/s. As my notebook should be EDR-ready I checked drivers and found out that these weren't EDR-capaple. So I installed new driver from the successor and now I'm connected with 2,1Mbit/s :)

nice, thanx

[vdavide]

nice infos , thx to all!

[batumulia]

Nice, good to know it does have EDR :D I'm going to mail PDADB about it so that they change it.

[tandy279]

pardon my ignorance of the Bluetooth protocols, but I don't understand how 3 mega BITS per second could equate to 150 kilo BYTES per second - in the version of computer science I learned, 8 bits equal a byte, meaning 3 mb/s equates to more than 350 kB/s

even if we allow a massive 30% protocol overhead, 350 kB/s still has about 250 kB/s usable bandwidth

I'd appreciate it if someone knowledgeable in BT could shed some light on this

[Noam23]

lol, it is much faster copying things to the Touch Cruise using HSDPA (3.6 megabit = 450 kbyte/s), than using the Bluetooth connection (150 Kbyte/s).

[vdavide]

pardon my ignorance of the Bluetooth protocols, but I don't understand how 3 mega BITS per second could equate to 150 kilo BYTES per second - in the version of computer science I learned, 8 bits equal a byte, meaning 3 mb/s equates to more than 350 kB/s

even if we allow a massive 30% protocol overhead, 350 kB/s still has about 250 kB/s usable bandwidth

I'd appreciate it if someone knowledgeable in BT could shed some light on this

3Mbit is a theorical speed ... for each byte there are some extra bit for protocol handling ( almost 8 bit + 1 start bit + 1 stop bit , error control and so on ) ... and if you give a try you will get the speed reported in the first post ( that are proven , not theory ... ).
vdavide

[Noam23]

3Mbit is a theorical speed ... for each byte there are some extra bit for protocol handling ( almost 8 bit + 1 start bit + 1 stop bit , error control and so on ) ... and if you give a try you will get the speed reported in the first post ( that are proven , not theory ... ).
vdavide

Using less words:

3Mbit = Marketing hype.

[vdavide]

Using less words:

3Mbit = Marketing hype.

this ia why people was waiting for a software like WMwifirouter ... using wifi the speed reach about 300Kbytes from device to PC when in hsdpa coverage :D