Chapter 45
Using Wireless Bluetooth Devices
IN THIS CHAPTER
What Bluetooth is all about
Connecting and configuring a Bluetooth adapter
Associating with different Bluetooth devices
Connecting to a Bluetooth-enabled personal area network
Transferring files between two systems using the personal area network
In a nutshell, Bluetooth is a wireless technology that provides wireless communications among computers, printers, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, and other electronic devices. You can connect as many as eight devices together with Bluetooth, with one device acting as the master device and up to seven slave devices. (This labyrinth of connected devices is called a piconet; you can have up to two piconets.) For example, you could have a desktop PC, a laptop, a smart phone, digital camera, MP3 player, digital video camera, and headphones all linked wirelessly. They could all share a high-speed Internet connection, share data, and use a single printer.
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