Bluetooth connections with PocketPC's advice

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Not quite. The frequency is the 2.4GHz ISM band.

The channels are not independently managed in 75 channels. They're used in a
piconet to spread the channel usage and avoit interference with other
piconets around or other 2.4GHz devices, like microwave ovens, DECT phones,
Wireless LAN interfaces, microwave telco stations, etc.

Up to 7 devices can participate in a piconet. One device will be selected as
a master, and it will give a kind of a heartbeat to the piconet. The slaves
will follow the master. This heartbeat will control which channel is being
used at any time, and each transmission is in a new channel, but not
simultaneously.

The multiple connections between Bluetooth devices is not consequence of the
multiple channels.

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"Clinton Fitch" <clintonfitchiii@aol.comspamme> wrote in message
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> Group,
>
> I've done some more research on this complex topic lately that some have
> brought to the attention of the group.
>
> It looks at least to me like most Windows Mobile device OEMs are using the
> Bluetooth 1.1
> standard. That standard allows for 75 2.5 GHz channels, each of which can
> be used for connections. So, in theory, if your device is using v1.1,
> multiple devices should not be a problem at least according to theory. The
> only
> catch in this would be
> if an OEM chooses not to use the full 1.1 standard (i.e., limit the number
> of channels or some other limitation).
>
> No warranty or guarantee implied! :-D However it sounds like most users
> should
> be good-to-go on multiple BT connections, and I should know as I have
> tested it
> myself in my own home and work.
>
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