Bluetooth wireless devices are supposed to work up to about thirty feet from the PC. How reliable is that at the upper limits of that distance?
I use my wireless headset throughout my house - max through-the-walls distance is about 40 feet, and I haven’t had any trouble. Consistent sound quality and connection. Farthest I’ve used my Pocket PC for connection was probably about 20 feet, and I had no problems there either. I know that anecdote != data and all, but…
Cool. Thanks. One of the departments at work wants to use a barcode scanner about 20-30 feet away from the PC. We could run a long serial cable, but the manufacturer also makes a Bluetooth scanner, so that might be cheaper and simpler.
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Bluetooth Range
Most Bluetooth devices are described as ‘Class 2’. These are very low power (typically 1 milliwatt - 1/1000th of a watt) and have a range of about 10 m (33 ft).
Some devices - for example, some plug in ‘dongles’ that can be added to to laptop computers - are Class 1. These have range comparable to that of Wi-Fi, ie, 100 m or 330 ft.
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