I would assume u need bb and pb to be connected via Bluetooth, and also via wifi. Then bridged data will go thru wifi instead of Bluetooth. Try file transfer and see if u can feel the speed difference.
I would assume u need bb and pb to be connected via Bluetooth, and also via wifi. Then bridged data will go thru wifi instead of Bluetooth. Try file transfer and see if u can feel the speed difference.
ok, that makes sense, but i was under the impression that bridge over wifi meant what at least a few of us thought it did. if it is indeed the case that bt still needs to be turned on, that, to me, seems counter-intuitive. the point was, or at least what i thought the point was, to keep thirst to a minimum by using one signal for everything.
mildly frustrated, but i am pleased with 2.1 so far.
I don't think there are any specific settings for this. If both devices are on the same wireless, it just seems to work. Mh phone is at the other end of the house and I'm still bridged. I see activity on my WiFi router everytime I access bridge items. Not sure how it works, but it does!
agreed. where the speed difference would help is bridging to the internet, but if both are on wifi, what's the point? Another advantage would be less battery usage if you didn't need bluetooth, but again, bluetooth has to be on, so what's the point? finally if you could bridge in an "ad hoc" network between the phone and pb for faster data transfer than that would be good too, but you can't, so, once again, what's the point?
Assuming this is even working, the point would be both higher transfer rate (over WiFi) and, possibly, reduced Bluetooth power consumption.
Assuming that both devices would have had WiFi on anyway, using WiFi may be more efficient (essentially watts per megabyte transferred) for the data transfer.
The Bluetooth connection would be mostly idle in this state, so overall consumption may be reduced. Might take a bit to set up an experiment to explore that and prove/disprove the theory...
Data goes over wifi. The bluetooth connection is used to create a secure connection.
and....?? the only place this helps is "open on playbook" for pictures where there's a small speed inprovement. Beyond that, since both are on wifi anyway, there is very little if any benefit to this.
Transferring large files between devices which I do often would go much faster over wifi.
I just transferred a 200 MB file from phone to PB using files and folders. The transfer took 5 minutes. I don't know how that compares just an observation.
I just tried a 202MB file transfer with and without WiFi enabled as I did it.
With just Bluetooth: 317s
With BT and WiFi: 282s.
I have no idea if it's reproducible yet... may not have the time to check right now.
Conclusion: none... for all we know, that "leaked" feature isn't even really part of this release. (Edit: okay, so if Clewley says so then I guess we have it. Would have expected maybe a bigger effect though.)
mayoung, see Chaddface's comment earlier... some of us (at least) are using Files & Folders. You can top-swipe to switch to the /BlackBerry folder (where the remote BB phone filesystem is mounted locally) and drill down from there to your videos folder or whatever, then switch back to the PlayBook and do the copy.
As others have stated, the BT connection is required in order to make the secure connection and probably also acts as a way to inform each device that they are on the same Wifi network and what their ip addresses are.
Requiring your phone and PlayBook to sniff out the other RIM devices on a network is not efficient and most likely breaks a handful of their tennets about security.