It's been a long time since I've had a Bluetooth device in for testing. My previous experience with 3Com's 3CRWB6096 Bluetooth PC Card was almost two years ago, and relatively frustrating. The card worked well -- almost too well given its surprisingly wide range -- but the inability of the card to connect into my LAN left me with not much to do in the way of evaluation. A Bluetooth Access Point would have made things more interesting, but such devices were both expensive and hard to come by almost two years ago.
Flash forward to today and Bluetooth is still struggling to make its mark on the wireless networking map. However, it looks like at least one barrier to more widespread use of Bluetooth is ready to fall. Belkin's F8T030 Bluetooth Access Point is not only affordable, but throws in a two-port USB print server to sweeten the deal.
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