Bluetooth - Reasonable to expect it cover the whole house?

[Noozer]

Just picked up a pair of Motorola bluetooth headphones. Works great to play
music from my phone. I also have a cheap eBay dongle for my PC and it works
OK. In both cases the range can be pretty short, less than 20 feet.

I'd like to be able to play MP3's on my PC and listen throughout the house.
Is it reasonable to expect bluetooth to work for this? Looking at your
average 20'x30' two storey home + basement.

Thx!

 

[Yes Baby]

Just picked up a pair of Motorola bluetooth headphones. Works great to
play music from my phone. I also have a cheap eBay dongle for my PC and it
works OK. In both cases the range can be pretty short, less than 20 feet.

I'd like to be able to play MP3's on my PC and listen throughout the
house. Is it reasonable to expect bluetooth to work for this? Looking at
your average 20'x30' two storey home + basement.

Thx!

No

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <ABXmi.126021$1i1.51724@pd7urf3no> "Noozer"

Just picked up a pair of Motorola bluetooth headphones. Works great to play
music from my phone. I also have a cheap eBay dongle for my PC and it works
OK. In both cases the range can be pretty short, less than 20 feet.

I'd like to be able to play MP3's on my PC and listen throughout the house.
Is it reasonable to expect bluetooth to work for this? Looking at your
average 20'x30' two storey home + basement.

That's well beyond the bluetooth specifications, but it might work, you
won't really know until you test it. Both the components as well as the
obstacles will play large roles.

 

[Sjouke Burry]

No

A bit longer answer: bluetooth has been designed to switch
between applications:wearing a headset, when you are near
your computer(or BT phone or BT audioset) it should switch
to it, and that means that you need a WEAK signal, to avoid
interference between devices.
So, bluetooth intended range is ment to be about 1-2 yards,
dont expect WIKI range from BT.