Problems Access AvantGo via Bluetooth on Zire 72

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:44:28 -0600, Christian M. Mericle
<newsgroupinky@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Anyone using Bluetooth w/ the Zire 72? I got the adapter installed
>fine and my desktop and handheld are able to see each other. I
>synchronize w/o problem. However, when I attempt to access the web via
>AvantGo (e.g. to refresh a page or follow a link), I get an error.
>
>The first error was 5470 -- Cannot find server or there was a DNS
>error.
>
>So, I changed the AvantGo server settings from the DNS name to the IP
>address, which resulted in Error 5486 - Timeout.
>
>I tried a couple of more times and the error changed to 5471 - The
>server did not respond to the connection request.
>
>Any thoughts?
>

I recall getting it to work a couple times (can't remember how). I
quickly went back to using the hotsync cable. AvantGo often moves a
lot of data and the Bluetooth connection between your handheld and
your desktop is about as slow as a dial-up Internet connection.

Unless you have no other real choice, you're better off using USB
hotsync. Otherwise it can take a very long time to hotsync with
AvantGo (ie 15 to 30 minutes).

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:10:48 -0400, pfw <pfw@pobox.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:44:28 -0600, Christian M. Mericle
><newsgroupinky@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyone using Bluetooth w/ the Zire 72? I got the adapter installed
>>fine and my desktop and handheld are able to see each other. I
>>synchronize w/o problem. However, when I attempt to access the web via
>>AvantGo (e.g. to refresh a page or follow a link), I get an error.
>>
>>The first error was 5470 -- Cannot find server or there was a DNS
>>error.
>>
>>So, I changed the AvantGo server settings from the DNS name to the IP
>>address, which resulted in Error 5486 - Timeout.
>>
>>I tried a couple of more times and the error changed to 5471 - The
>>server did not respond to the connection request.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>
>I recall getting it to work a couple times (can't remember how). I
>quickly went back to using the hotsync cable. AvantGo often moves a
>lot of data and the Bluetooth connection between your handheld and
>your desktop is about as slow as a dial-up Internet connection.
>
>Unless you have no other real choice, you're better off using USB
>hotsync. Otherwise it can take a very long time to hotsync with
>AvantGo (ie 15 to 30 minutes).

AvantGo synchs okay (and about as fast as using the cable). It's just
getting to pages not stored on the device (i.e. the handheld) and
refreshing pages already in the handheld w/o having to do a full
synch.

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