Easiest way of accessing the net via home adsl with xdaII?

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From another thread... i've just been told xdaII doesn't have Wi-fi as i first presumed.

Can someone suggest the best way to access the net through my home adsl router? Would bluetooth be my best bet?

Can you recommend specifically which equipment will work... since there are so many issues at the moment as to what works and what doesn't.

Thanks!!

Fais

put i-mate in usb cradle, hook up cradle to PC. i-mate uses PC's network connection.

Outside of that you'll either be springing for a usb/bt dongle (which I haven't seen any posts of anyone using) or a WiFi SD card. Can't think of any other options off the top of my head.

As you have mentioned earlier, you have already wired up your whole home with wif-, and presumably have a wi-fi access point.


The best route would thereofre be to add a wi-fi card to your xda2, such as the Socket Wireless LAN (WiFi) SD Card. This will give you better speeds than bluetooth, and you will not have to worry about profiles etc.

Just my 2c

Surur

I use a Belkin USB bluetooth dongle, and using the ActiveSync passthrough you can then browse the web on the XDA within the range of the dongle. You can get dongles with a 100m range, which should be plenty within a house.
Only trouble is, being ActiveSync, it it pot luck whether you can establish a link or not. Once you've established the link, it works quite well, though not flawlessly. It's also quite slow. Not as slow as GPRS, but not exactly snappy either. I don't know whether this is down to PIE, the bluetooth, or the ActiveSync. Most likely the latter.
Ideally, you'd use a bluetooth access point, but I'm not sure the XDA will work with that due to the absence of an appropriate protocol.

Thanks for the replies... I know what you mean onepieceman... activesync if driving me crazing

Wi-fi seems my best bet since usb seems to be incredibly slow at downlaoding a page.... thanks for the recommendations surur and graah.

don use WiFi at home! use BT

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I've got both BT dongle and WiFi sdio setup at home.

The BT is actually to a notebook which is WiFi'd to my ADSL to inet...

The WiFi is faster, but:
1. the BT actually gave me better range! (I got the 100m one from Belkin)
2. the WiFi is a pig ( P I G ) on the battery.
3. the WiFi takes up my SD porn-movies slot

if you setup activesync to only do the sync MANUALLY (you have to
tell it both on the PC and on the XDA to sync manually) then
establishing BT pass-thru is much easier/faster

The internet is kinda slow on the XDA, I think probably because
MS's pocket IE is just bad. I don't think the TCP/IP works correctly
or that it opens enough connections in parallel to get the GIF's
and stuff. The network/BT/WiFi and the hardware (128Mb/400Mhz)
is much faster than what IE/Microsoft gives us.

But what do you expect from the 640Kb is enough company, that
did it again with 32 ****ing processes?!

There is also the option of XDA CF jacket

Re: don use WiFi at home! use BT

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Originally Posted by mgolanlan

The internet is kinda slow on the XDA, I think probably because
MS's pocket IE is just bad. I don't think the TCP/IP works correctly
or that it opens enough connections in parallel to get the GIF's
and stuff. The network/BT/WiFi and the hardware (128Mb/400Mhz)
is much faster than what IE/Microsoft gives us.

But what do you expect from the 640Kb is enough company, that
did it again with 32 ****ing processes?!

thanks mgolanlan... does this mean the net speed is going to be on par with the usb speed? - usb was incredibly slow ... if so i may as well not bother with net access all together

usb1.1 is 12Mb /sec

if your ADSL is faster then that you are pretty lucky