GPRS,Bluetooth and 6600 issues

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i recently bought a bluetooth dongle, no name on it, and i can only get transfers of up to 3kb/s when transfering files to the phone from my pc. i have xp_sp2 and the dongle's software installed properly. is there a setting somewhere that i am missing? tested my phone with a belkin dongle and got about 18kb/s, so i know it's not the phone.any ideas? i am trying to use my phone to download e-mails at home, got that working after a week, but the speed is the same as the file transfer.
 
Firstly, welcome to the Mybroadband forum, enjoy your stay!

it is probably your dongle. Either it is faulty or you just bought a **** 1. I dunno what else i can say. I use a usb bluetooth dongle and works fine. Goog Luck.
 
make sure that the distance between the two devices is not more than a few feet and they have LOS (line of sight). i think bt does go through walls and the like, but i do know it was meant to be a short range protocol.

not sure if it is relevant to bt, but generally with rf, the futher you are away and the more interference you have, the slower the link becomes.

not sure which freq bt uses, but it could be that you have a cordless phone or something close by that interferes. try moving to a diffrent location (unless you tested the other dongle at the same location).

if using a laptop, make sure it is plugged in to the mains (power). some notebooks skimp on the USB power and some devices try to pull too much power from USB. could be eithers fault.

i've noticed on mobile phones that the speed drops dramatically once the disk space is low. try cleaning the memory card / flash and see what the speed is like.

hope it helps.
 
you don't need line of sight for BT.
Lots of manufacturers have had issues with BT and xp2, i recomend you check their web page to see if they have released a specific driver for xp2! ( i had to do this with my 6600 and bt dongle)
secondly , the bt dongle installs com ports, make sure these are not confliciting with existing ones and the settings on them are correct!
 
On the subject, there are known issues with some BT stacks and some of the data cards, especially around 'com port clash'. Under correction, I remember Toshiba notebooks having this problem.
 
hi yall....yip resource clash...my fav problem....be wary if using xp2 on mecer.
Lipo
 
headaches...

tested my dongle last night with a friend's apple g4 laptop, got 50kb/s, so it's not my dongle. then tested his laptop with my phone and got 4kb/s again?!? the bt software i'm using is bluesoleil 1.4, looks nice, but there aren't many settings to change, you can basically choose which services to run and that's it. had a look at the ms list, my dongle is listed there, seem's i've got a CSR one. is it better to force windows to use that driver (picks up dongle as standard bt when not forced) or should i use the software that came with it? thanx
 
BT dongle

Always use the software that comes with the device.




MindlessDemon said:
tested my dongle last night with a friend's apple g4 laptop, got 50kb/s, so it's not my dongle. then tested his laptop with my phone and got 4kb/s again?!? the bt software i'm using is bluesoleil 1.4, looks nice, but there aren't many settings to change, you can basically choose which services to run and that's it. had a look at the ms list, my dongle is listed there, seem's i've got a CSR one. is it better to force windows to use that driver (picks up dongle as standard bt when not forced) or should i use the software that came with it? thanx
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dont always use the software that comes with the device in bluetooth cases!!!

problem is , some of these programs install their own almost propriety drivers that don't work with other software, eg, you can only make a dial up connection via there software, other prorgrams like the 6600 phone manager cannot see the bluetooth install because it doesnt appear to be a bluetooth adaptor, if XP see's your bluetooth with its own drivers, id much rather use them! trust me, i've been through 7 different dongles and many phones on XP!!!
 
narrowed down problem

i've managed to narrow down the problem, my phone can't receive faster than 5kb/s for some reason. it can send between 18-25kb/s though... don't know whats wrong anymore.any ideas as to why the gprs connection to the pc is still so slow?(sending to pc > 5kb/s in theory based on above statement,but not)!

anybody know of a forum for overclocking bluetooth/unlocking extra sending pipelines?
 
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