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From: Alexandre Campo <Alexandre.Campo@ulb.ac.be>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bluez-users] impact of distance on quality of transmission ?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:29:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061121232949.07b6fc6f@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

Hi,

I am working with a bunch of robots and I communicate with them using bluetooth connections.
I am trying to receive data from 7 robots at the same time.

For this, I simply connect to each robot using a program linked against libbluetooth,
that makes use of sockets and rfcomm.

Using only one robot, we manage to receive pretty well the data.
Using 7 robots things get complicated. If robots are close (~1 meter) from the bluetooth
dongle, we receive all the data.

As soon as the robots are far from the dongle (~2 meters and more) we start observing errors
in the data transmitted.

I am surprised because :
* we do not exceed the bt bandwidth (< 800 kb/s)
* we use SOCK_STREAM sockets that are supposed to be reliable

My questions :
* any idea of what causes these mistakes ?
* how to avoid transmission errors ?


Thanks a lot for your help,
Alexandre Campo.


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Details :
I use a belkin bt usb adapter (100m range)

info from usbview : 

BCM92045DG Non-UHE
Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp
Speed: 12Mb/s (full)
USB Version:  2.00

The robots have 

a bluetooth serial port module :
http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LMX9820A.html#General%20Description

a phycomp 2.45 GHz antenna :
http://www.phycomp-components.com/ (website unavailable ?)


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2006-11-21 22:29 Alexandre Campo [this message]
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2006-11-22  0:41 [Bluez-users] impact of distance on quality of transmission ? Pering, Trevor

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