One bluetooth dongle, 2 pcs?

Hi,

I have a Belkin f8t03, and am using it primarily to connect with my
Nokia 6600. I have 2 pcs, one named Tecra8100 and the other named
Systemax.
I first had the dongle plugged into Tecra8100. When I moved the dongle
to Systemax, the phone still saw the pc it was being paired with as
Tecra 8100. I don't know all the ins and outs of bluetooth yet but I
assume that these bluetooth radios use a mac address or something based
on a similar principle, therefore, the phone sees the same radio, hense
associates it with the same device? Is this the case? and if so, is
there anyway to get it to see two separate devices without continually
removing the first one it finds from the phone?

Thanks,

--Al

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:30:17 -0400, Al puzzuoli <alpuzz@comcast.net>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a Belkin f8t03, and am using it primarily to connect with my
>Nokia 6600. I have 2 pcs, one named Tecra8100 and the other named
>Systemax.
>I first had the dongle plugged into Tecra8100. When I moved the dongle
>to Systemax, the phone still saw the pc it was being paired with as
>Tecra 8100. I don't know all the ins and outs of bluetooth yet but I
>assume that these bluetooth radios use a mac address or something based
>on a similar principle, therefore, the phone sees the same radio, hense
>associates it with the same device? Is this the case? and if so, is
>there anyway to get it to see two separate devices without continually
>removing the first one it finds from the phone?

I had the same problem. I think you're right, it must use the MAC
address of the dongle to identify who its talking to. In the end I
decided to buy a second dongle to use with the other PC to save all
the messing around, and it now recognises each machine correctly.

Chris

"Chris Blunt" <chris_blunt@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:c0usj0p0litnsqmlmfd1qn899q4tken1s7@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:30:17 -0400, Al puzzuoli <alpuzz@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a Belkin f8t03, and am using it primarily to connect with my
> >Nokia 6600. I have 2 pcs, one named Tecra8100 and the other named
> >Systemax.
> >I first had the dongle plugged into Tecra8100. When I moved the dongle
> >to Systemax, the phone still saw the pc it was being paired with as
> >Tecra 8100. I don't know all the ins and outs of bluetooth yet but I
> >assume that these bluetooth radios use a mac address or something based
> >on a similar principle, therefore, the phone sees the same radio, hense
> >associates it with the same device? Is this the case? and if so, is
> >there anyway to get it to see two separate devices without continually
> >removing the first one it finds from the phone?
>
> I had the same problem. I think you're right, it must use the MAC
> address of the dongle to identify who its talking to. In the end I
> decided to buy a second dongle to use with the other PC to save all
> the messing around, and it now recognises each machine correctly.
>
> Chris

Correct.

You may find that when you try to connect your phone to the 2nd PC the first
time, that the connection is rejected as the BT driver will not recognise
the phone as a paired device.

Once the phone is paired with both PCs (there will only be one entry in the
phone), you shouldn't have any problems.

TDK USB, Sony laptop, and home made PC - all working correctly

--
Antz,
Part of the UKtm family