bluetooth & database

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Lloyd Dupont

I have a PPC app which do wireless access to the database on the local
wireless network (using SqlServerAdapter)

that work fine, but not everybody has wireless, some have bluetooth.
is there a way to access the database over bluetooth ?

what's bluetooth exactly BTW ? what's the difference with wireless ?
I have been told it doesn't support TCP/IP, is that true ?
is there any solution ?
 
Lloyd, you can access the network with bluetooth but you'll need an adapter.
Very cool technolgoy, but a few problems. 1) If you have a bunch of
bluetooth stuff in a close range, it can get confused. 2) Range is 10
meters with line of site. It diminishes quickly with obstruction.

Not totally sure about TCP/IP but AFAIK, that's true, it doesn't support it.
 
My experiences using Bluetooth on an iPaq suggest that things can get
very very technical if you want to implement direct communication
between applications. However, if you bring Activesync into the
equation then things are far simpler. When activesync is connected I
am able to consume web services or use socket communications in a .Net
application.

Hope this helps.
 
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