{"id":202,"date":"2009-07-08T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biatch0.net\/?p=202"},"modified":"2009-07-08T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:08:44","slug":"bluetooth-widcomm-toshiba-microsoft-and-unstandardized-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/2009\/07\/08\/bluetooth-widcomm-toshiba-microsoft-and-unstandardized-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth, Widcomm, Toshiba, Microsoft and Unstandardized Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe anything that you read in the newspapers about how Bluetooth is a standard based technology. Well, it is&#8230; like at the integrated circuit level.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever want to do more than just transferring files or syncing your mobile phone, you&#8217;ve probably run into the same problems as I have. Put simply, the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack that is included with every Windows XP SP2 (and anything more recent) doesn&#8217;t cut it. Yes, this sounds familiar&#8230; here&#8217;s a hint; it rhymes with Internet Explorer. The Microsoft Bluetooth Stack (referred to as MSBS from hereon in) isn&#8217;t so much of a stack&#8230; maybe a small pile&#8230; but definitely not a stack. Kind of like selling the male reproductive orgasn as a package&#8230; sans testicles. MSBS supports File Transfer&#8230; and err&#8230; Dial-Up Networking&#8230; and err&#8230; yeah, that&#8217;s about it. Microsoft being anal about bundling their own wonderful MSBS in every version of Windows after XP SP2 has brought Bluetooth to the simpleton masses&#8230; but pretty much screwed over any techie who is interested in the full potential of Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the bundled MSBS (Windows being used on like 90% of the PC market or something like that), Bluetooth hardware manufacturers decided, &#8220;Hey guys, MS already bundles drivers with Windows&#8230; let&#8217;s save like 20 cents on the driver CD!!!&#8221;. Well, something like that anyway. USB Bluetooth dongle prices dropped to like RM15\/pc because of the absence of a driver CD and the wonder of Chinese reverse (and re)engineering.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot the whole point of this rant&#8230; so to wrap up&#8230; the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack and the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack sucks goats nuts. The only Bluetooth Stack you should even consider using is the Widcomm\/Broadcom Stack. Issue is, Widcomm\/Broadcom decided to protect themselves by allowing their Bluetooth Stack to only be used with <em>licensed hardware<\/em> so the only way to get the Widcomm\/Broadcom Stack on your PC is by looking for a needle in a stack of needles&#8230; or more accurately the grand total of like 4 USB Bluetooth dongles that come with the Widcomm\/Broadcom stack in the big stack of needles known as Low Yat Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent anyone else from suffering more pain than necessary, here are the few USB Bluetooth dongles I have found that come with the Widcomm\/Broadcom stack:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anycom USB-500<\/li>\n<li>Belkin F8T013 (and most other Belkin Bluetooth devices)<\/li>\n<li>D-Link DBT-120\/122 (unconfirmed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you think you can get that RM15 dongle to run the Audio Gateway service&#8230; go right ahead.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. you can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe anything that you read in the newspapers about how Bluetooth is a standard based technology. Well, it is&#8230; like at the integrated circuit level. If you ever want to do more than just transferring files or syncing your mobile phone, you&#8217;ve probably run into the same problems as I have. Put simply, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,36,39,55,57,58,76,140,216,230,234,237],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anycom","tag-belkin","tag-bluetooth","tag-d-link","tag-dbt-120","tag-dbt-122","tag-f8t013","tag-microsoft","tag-toshiba","tag-usb-500","tag-widcomm","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}