It does use lower power, yeah. but it's significantly lower range.

I can jack the tx power on the atheros cards down to 0dBm into the antenna and transmit for very short periods of time. It draws noticably less power than at full power, but still draws power. Receive is also quite hungry.



-adrian



On 24 September 2013 15:33, Marc Juul <juul@labitat.dk> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Mitar <mitar@tnode.com> wrote:
Hi!

> Hopefully this brings some inspiration and answers some questions (ex.
> Mitar: Why Bluetooth?)

I must say that I still don't understand why Bluetooth, but probably is
mostly related that it is easier to control on current mobile platforms?
So lowering power on WiFi and configuring IP stack there probably
requires root. I am not sure if Open Garden requires root?

I would also guess that bluetooth still consumes significantly less power than wifi even if wifi is set to lower power, but I don't actually know.

--
Marc

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