[Trainer-Talk] Does anyone know if it matters?

[Jim Portillo]

Excellent. And, you are right about keeping them straight. Since I am in the transition process anyway, I went ahead and re-named my new laptop so that there's no confusion on my end. :-)

Thank you again for all your great answers.

Jim

Sent from my iPhone 7!

> On May 13, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Damashe Thomas via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> From a technical standpoint, it doesn't matter.
> The reason is that each bluetooth device has its own unique hardware address, or mac address.
> For example, Jim's PC Windows 10 may have a mac address of
> 84af:3f6c:8b5b:1aff 
> and Jim's other pc may have a mac address of 
> ffe5:f5b6:5b7c:45bb
> So for the VarioUltra, it knows the win10 machine by its address, and the other machine by its unique address.
> 
> Now from a practical standpoint, are you sure you would be able to keep them straight?
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
> 
> Damashe
> 
>> On May 13, 2017, at 12:02 PM, Jim Portillo via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Good morning,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm slowly transferring to a newer and faster laptop computer.  Something's
>> come up that I wanted to ask about before trying to connect some Bluetooth
>> devices.
>> 
>> It turns out that both of these computers turned out to have the same name.
>> In other words, they're both called Jim's PC.  
>> 
>> Would it matter if I wanted to connect something like a VarioUltra to both
>> of them, considering they both have the same name or would end up finding
>> the same name?
>> 
>> Would I be better off trying to rename one of them?  Not exactly sure where
>> to do that in the new Windows 10, but I'm perfectly willing.
>> 
>> I wouldn't want Bluetooth devices to get confused, but at the same time, I
>> wonder if it would matter considering they'd be on different channels.  
>> 
>> What do you folks think?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> 
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