Floid wrote:
The main thing is that WUSB will probably make Bluetooth look long-range -- and indeed, Bluetooth at least has a long-range spec if you're crazy enough to invest in making a WLAN with it.
Most longrange Bluetooth connection is replacment of serial connections AFAIK. I have seen Bluetooth Wlan hubbs but that was insanely expensive.
It's very neat, and will hopefully convince all the cool peripheral classes Bluetooth was supposed to bring us to become cheap and commodity, but if I understand the technology to be used, there are some fairly sane regulatory reasons why the power will not be goosed.
Bluetooth will probably become the lowcost alternative in the future.
... however, when the "peripheral" is a Palm or an iPaq, someone's certainly going to find a way to do it. For the moment, most of the networking geeks have congregated around things called "ethernet," but that's just because competing link-layers haven't been sufficiently cooler or cheaper.
Certainly seems like a way to bring wireless to my old PocketPC thats incapable of using SDIO.
