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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3143035" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>I play files I've downloaded elsewhere (I take my laptop with a YouTube download utility). Also, I <em>can</em> connect the network to the internet via my phone, but WiFi is just a networking protocol, the same as Ethernet (wired, IEEE 802.1 standard). Just as I can get a wireless hub and cables and build my own private ethernet network, so can I get a WiFi hub and build my own private wireless network, isolated from the world. Getting content into there is my problem. I can do that by downloading elsewhere and manually importing it (nicknamed "sneakernet," because you walk it from one network to another), or by connecting my small network to a larger one (using my phone at present, though it looks like I'll have honest-to-God optical fiber available in a year or two).</p><p></p><p>Bluetooth has a maximum theoretical range of about 33' under optimal conditions, and often far less. It's meant for connecting a peripheral to a single machine. WiFi has a much greater range, and is meant to be a general network connection, with any device being able to talk to any other.</p><p></p><p>I'd be kind of surprised if your screen mirroring is Bluetooth. It just doesn't have the bandwidth or the range to support a serious video connection. It's meant for keyboards, mice, audio devices, and maybe printers, on a one-to-one basis.</p><p></p><p>The cool thing is that the technology is getting refined enough that you don't need to understand the underlying protocol; it "just works." Apple is the king of this, but the Windows world is definitely getting better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3143035, member: 13624"] I play files I've downloaded elsewhere (I take my laptop with a YouTube download utility). Also, I [I]can[/I] connect the network to the internet via my phone, but WiFi is just a networking protocol, the same as Ethernet (wired, IEEE 802.1 standard). Just as I can get a wireless hub and cables and build my own private ethernet network, so can I get a WiFi hub and build my own private wireless network, isolated from the world. Getting content into there is my problem. I can do that by downloading elsewhere and manually importing it (nicknamed "sneakernet," because you walk it from one network to another), or by connecting my small network to a larger one (using my phone at present, though it looks like I'll have honest-to-God optical fiber available in a year or two). Bluetooth has a maximum theoretical range of about 33' under optimal conditions, and often far less. It's meant for connecting a peripheral to a single machine. WiFi has a much greater range, and is meant to be a general network connection, with any device being able to talk to any other. I'd be kind of surprised if your screen mirroring is Bluetooth. It just doesn't have the bandwidth or the range to support a serious video connection. It's meant for keyboards, mice, audio devices, and maybe printers, on a one-to-one basis. The cool thing is that the technology is getting refined enough that you don't need to understand the underlying protocol; it "just works." Apple is the king of this, but the Windows world is definitely getting better. [/QUOTE]
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