{"id":7475,"date":"2013-05-30T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:25:18","slug":"personal-hotspot-is-better-over-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/personal-hotspot-is-better-over-bluetooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Hotspot Is Better Over Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techinch.com\/blog\/Personal-Hotspot-is-Better-Over-Bluetooth\">Matthew Guay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/techinch.com\/blog\/Personal-Hotspot-is-Better-Over-Bluetooth\"><p>Bluetooth tethering. It sounds archaic and slow, but actually worked out better. And it wasn&rsquo;t slow, either: the speeds were essentially the same as I typically get through 3G already, or around 1.5Mb down and 1Mb up. Comically, it was faster to connect. I always seem to have a somewhat tricky time getting my iPhone&rsquo;s Wifi hotspot to show up in areas with tons of Wifi networks, but connecting via Bluetooth literally took two seconds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also says that it uses less battery power than Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-05-27): I just tried Personal Hotspot over Bluetooth and found that it was much slower than over Wi-Fi.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Guay: Bluetooth tethering. It sounds archaic and slow, but actually worked out better. And it wasn&rsquo;t slow, either: the speeds were essentially the same as I typically get through 3G already, or around 1.5Mb down and 1Mb up. Comically, it was faster to connect. I always seem to have a somewhat tricky time getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-01-27T16:25:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"2e6f8cc9-6245-43cb-b3e8-240f4bfd612d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-27T16:25:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALm-MyWJFQ8uz6CQPS_1hLQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,422,85,30,476,1174,2878,187],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-bluetooth","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-networking","tag-personal-hotspot","tag-tethering","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11348,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/11348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}