{"id":1078,"date":"2021-02-10T22:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2021-02-10T22:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:15:54","slug":"bluetooth-pan-and-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth PAN and Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"Back on High Sierra when I wanted to tether my MacBook Pro to my iPhone and save some battery power, I used Bluetooth and chose &#8220;Connect to Network&#8221; through the Bluetooth icon up in the menu bar. In Big Sur, that changed: when you go to the Bluetooth menu and choose your iPhone, it briefly connects and then disconnects.<br \/><br \/>I found that the &#8220;Connect to Network&#8221; option is now buried. Assuming you&#8217;ve already paired your iPhone via Bluetooth to your Mac, you can enable Bluetooth PAN using the following:<br \/><br \/><p>\r\n\r\n1. On your Mac, open &#8220;System Preferences&#8221;.<br \/>2. Click &#8220;Bluetooth&#8221;.<br \/>3. Right-click on the name of your iPhone and choose &#8220;Connect to Network&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>You&#8217;ll now be tethered to your iPhone via Bluetooth PAN. I only do this when I have low bandwidth needs and plan to stay tethered for a long time on battery power. In limited tests with speedtest.net and a tethered Bluetooth connection on Total Wireless, my macbookpro12,1 gets about 0.75 Mbps up and down. When tethering via wifi, the bandwidth jumps to about 40 Mbps down and 7 Mbps up. Finally, tethering via USB was nearly the same as the wifi-tether, although via USB the ping time dropped by 10 ms. This is with crude testing of one sample run for each connection type.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on High Sierra when I wanted to tether my MacBook Pro to my iPhone and save some battery power, I used Bluetooth and chose &#8220;Connect to Network&#8221; through the Bluetooth icon up in the menu bar. In Big Sur, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}