Re: Communicating using bluetooth or 802.11 by m_a_r_c_o
m_a_r_c_o
Tue Sep 09 03:36:06 CDT 2003
Well, if you can have an adapter for your printers to put them on your
network, I will recommend a solution using only WLAN since it has a
better range of communication. People will be able to request print
documents without having to be waiting near the printer (like with
bluetooth).
And mixing both technologies will be to much work I think, specially if
you want to use different PDa and not the iPAQ H5550 which has Bluetooth
and WLAN integrated. So any PDAs with a WLAN card will be able to run
your application.
The only black point is that WLAN consumes more power than an Bluetooth
adapter, but faster.
With the compact framework, you will have 2 choice for your app. You can
have a remote server with ASP.NET web pages specially design for PDAs,
or you can have an application running on your PDAs. It depends if your
application require a lot of data that cannot be stored on the PDAs, if
the data need to be as fresh as possible, if the users can use the
application offline or not, number of clients.....
/Marco
Mike Gannaway wrote:
> Hi Marco the goal of this project is to for an Ipaq device
> to communicate with a backoffice system to obtain and post
> data and to communicate with a bluetooth reciept printer
> to print reciepts for customers.
>
> Mike