Blue Tooth Speakers

We're the same, they did some repairs a few years ago and before that we only got 1.0mbs, we then lost broadband and we could hear other people talking, so called them out and we had 10 faults on the line, bt wouldn't fix them all so he change the wire to one that wasn't being use and we then got 6mbs but now it's back to 3mbs, it's amasing how much the phone wires around here gets a beating

 

I've been considering getting bluetooth speakers for 2 or 3 years now, initially thinking of a waterproof speaker for internet radio in the bath(room), then wondering if it could be used as a 'ringer' a couple of rooms away from where my phone's charging. Turbo charging plus batteries that last 2+ days have somewhat eliminated the later requirement.

More recently (using landlines much less as have 'free' mobile calls and out and about a lot) the desire to replicate the conference calling facilty we have on our phone system at home, using a mobile with a portable bluetooth speaker, both at home and out/about.

Anybody use them for those purposes?

 

Hi @Fat Controller , the thing arrived today.
I put the VM whatsit into modem mode, connected the new one with a cable, then a cable to my lap top.
No internet connection was the message I got, not even with a cable.
I then tried connecting to the new whatsit via wifi, no luck.

I'm obviously doing something wrong, and was a bit scared I couldn't get the VM whatsit back into wifi mode but managed to sort it in the end.

Think I'll leave well alone until the weekend when I'll hopefully have more time.

 

Thanks FC, I will have another go at the weekend.
Dont worry, I will get there in the end, but was probably doing things the wrong way round.

I'll give you another shout if I cant get it working.

 

Thanks FC, I hope I dont have to take up your time, I need to sort this out myself, but nice to know you are around should things go wrong.

 

I don't want to convolute the train of thought when seeking a solution to a problem but do remember that wifi and bluetooth are both radio frequencies.

If the wifi operates at a channel too close to bluetooth then it will cause interference resulting in either no wifi connections, no bluetooth connections or both.

For this reason, most broadband routers can be manually set to operate at a specific channel within the wifi frequency range.

Before testing live streaming (ie from internet to laptop then to bluetooth speakers), you should first test whether the bluetooth connection is sufficient to play an audio wave/mp3 file to the bluetooth speakers - you may find that the data rate transmission from laptop to bluetooth speakers is less than the wifi connection.

 

Thanks @misterQ , but I'm thinking from my speed testing that the Wi Fi is pretty poor speed wise, and that is probably the biggest problem.