Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

Richard Owlett <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:02:47 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/29/2019 10:21 AM, Andy Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> This is not LFS specific. But I've post to a LUG and a distro specific 
>> mailing list. No responses even touched on the my *EXPLICIT* question 
>> -- What should I be reading. Responders insist I should want what 
>> their identical setup. GRRRR ;<
>>
>> Sneakernet for file transfer has become annoying.
>> Ethernet is undesirable in my environment so I am only interested in 
>> wireless.
>> I have only a few machines a max of 6' apart.
>> My usage would typically be peer-to-peer but I want to communicate 
>> between any two machines.
>> My web connectivity is via a T-Mobile WiFi Hotspot (WiFi turned off).
>> I run Debian 9.8.
> 
> Can you use the hotspot as an access point? Often they work for a 
> handful of clients. If so, just use that and connect all the machines 
> via Wifi.
> 

It's poorly documented. I suspect it is intended to connect any WiFi 
equipped machine to the internet. I've seen no indication of capability 
of communication among machine ;{

Thanks.



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