Yup, it can be painful some time because of some/all of the stuff you've mentioned.

On the PDA part, it's mostly the high driver memory requirements of the Widcomm BT stack that causes the most problems only solvable with a reset. In this respect, the MS BT stack (on the PDA) is clearly superior.

On the notebook part, the problem, in my practive, usually go away with the latest drivers. If it doesn't and the BT connections just keep stalling for no apparent reason (which is the case with, say, my ThinkPad a31p and the original, 1.4.* IBM / Widcomm drivers), try decreasing the BT connection speed to, say, even 1200 bps if you use DUN. (Don't be afraid - it won't have any influence on the actual communication speed between the two devices.) Most of the time it helps to fight stalling connections.

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