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Re: Amazon Sidewalk - what are they thinking?! by snoopstah @ 16/06/2021 03:21

The Bluetooth SIG defines the Internet Protocol Support Profile (IPSP) over BLE, which from my limited understanding is, simplistically speaking, the main part of a BLE access point (it allows BLE devices to exchange IP packets, and if one end had an

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Re: Amazon Sidewalk - what are they thinking?! by mlord @ 16/06/2021 00:32

So they're offering free Prime Music streaming over your neighbour's internet connection. Nice. Not a problem if the neighbour has a modern and un-metered connection, but not so great when that connection is slower or billed by the megabyte. Cheer

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Re: Amazon Sidewalk - what are they thinking?! by Shonky @ 16/06/2021 00:10

It's not a Wi-Fi access point. It's not really a BLE access point either (which doesn't really exist). Even then BLE is pretty low bandwidth - not enough for any significant internet use. Basically it just for things like tracking tags and people wo