I have a Nokia N800 (linux!) internet tablet with bluetooth and a Dell D820 Latitude laptop with bluetooth. I have had trouble making the two connect--cant find one clear explanation (HOWTO) of the process to connect a laptop to another device and move files back and forth. Anyway, after lots of fiddling with hcitool and gnome and kde bluetooth regimes, I am able to hook the devices together and use the Gnome file manager to right click a file and send it to the tablet. But it is horribly slow. An 8mb song file took 3.5 minutes to go from the PC to the tablet via bluetooth. The tablet also has a usb cable connector and a wireless network card. If I plug in the USB cable and mount the tablet's drives on the laptop system, file transfers are super fast. Similarly, I can use the scp program on the tablet to copy the same song file and it is much faster--8 seconds. So, is bluetooth supposed to be much slower than USB connection? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
