Customer Reviews

AmbiCom BT2000-CF Blue Tooth CF with PC Adapter

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I bought this card about a year ago after I purchased a blue tooth enabled cell phone. I wanted the capability to connect to the web using my phone with my Dell Axim X5 while on the go. It worked like a charm. The connection software that came with the card was very easy to work with and after a few seconds of setup, I was surfing the web.

Setting the card up on my laptop was a another story. The card did not come with a driver that would work with Win XP. I tried to use the blue tooth drivers that are bundled with windows, but I could not get it to work. I went to the Ambicom support page to see if a driver was available. It said an XP driver was in development. That was five months ago and they still have not released a driver. So, buyers with XP laptops beware!

I ordered this item and was instead shipped the BT2000D-CF

That additional "D" in the model name is very important - it signals the switch to a different chipset that is NOT supported by anywhere near as many devices.

Bought it at Fry's in anticipation that it would work on my J720. What a waste of time and money! The drivers for HPC2000 were not even on the CD-ROM so I had to google to find them. And after I installed them on my Jornada the blasted thing did not even work! And on top of all this, AmbiCom no longer supports the card! If they no longer support it, why do they still sell the card in retail stores?

What a waste!

I bought the AmbiCom BT2000-CF Blue Tooth CF with PC Adapter a couple of years ago to use with my Laptop. It never worked right with it. They said that they would have drivers for XP. The latest driver is for Windows 2000. How old is that. I have checked their web page for the duration and have never found a driver for XP. Thus my $50.00 expendature has been a total waste of funds. That's my two cents.

Card seems well made, wireless connections worked good to about 25' max. distance. The "Blue Neighbors" device browser works well. I had no difficulty doing file transfer and dialup connections. Problems began when attempting to use a keyboard, the driver has no HID profiles and the bluetooth stack is not widcomm/drakar/MS V1.4+ compliant, so good luck getting third-party BT keyboard/mouse drivers to work with this card. Adding insult to injury, the driver also conflicts with the IR port in PPC2002, preventing use of an IR keyboard when bluetooth is operating.

If all you need is simple networking/dialup/file push/printing, this card will work for you. Don't buy it if you want full bluetooth versatility in a PocketPC 2002 PDA.