change BT from class 2--> class 1? so distance is 100m

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hello,

i just bought a usb dongle class 1, with a capabilty of bonding over 100 meter. But as i have found on this forum the XDA II has only class 2 which only goes 10 meters. Is there a possibility to change the one on the XDA II to become a class 2? is it software-dependant? or is it in the hardware, and there's nothing to do about it? (hope there is!).

thanks for your help.

i would very much asume that the class 1 dont send with as many watt as class 2
and i would almost surdenly asume that no software setting would be able to change this

maybe some bluetooth repeater could be able to if it were within 10m of the xda2 would repeat the bluetooth signal and making it stronger giving it a wider range

i fear i have to tell you that the operating class of bluetooth devices is defined by the hardware used. maybe there are solutions on the market which are class1 (100meters) allowing to set back to class2 for energy saving reasons or something else. but the other way round it would not work because the sending energy has to be significantly increased, which means more power consumption and that is not what we want to have in mobile devices. operating time of ppc's is much too short at all :(

regards

peter

well,
thanks for your replies.