Customer Reviews

Smallest Bluetooth 2.0 Adapter Dongle (Vista/Windows XP Compatible)

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I bought 2 of these looking at the price being so good but shipping costs brought 2 of these up to over 10$ but i bought them anyways after seeing peoples sucsess storys. Bad choice. This bluetooth adapter would work great if it wasnt tied to Bluesiols Drivers. You can get this dongle to work for standard bluetooth devices like file transfers without installing the software but anything involving sound coming out through the bluetooth adapter into your bluetooth headset forget it. This device manufacture using bluesiol was a big mistake. I tried installing the bluesiol software on the disc on my brand spanking new 1500$ computer with windows 7 and it crashed my computer with the blue screen of death! You can imagine my anger after having this happen. I uninstalled the bluesiol software and did a system restore to fix the blue screen problem. then i went to bluesiols website and tried to install the newest software, With support for windows 7. It recognized the dongle after a restart and i was finally able to use my bluetooth headset after 4 hours of troubleshooting!(Or so i thought,) I started talking to my friends on skype and 2 minutes later the headset disconnected from the dongle. Going into bluesiol and telling it to reconnect gave me various messages, like there is no bluetooth dongle installed, and the bluetooth service isnt running, and the headset isnt responding. My headset is fine as it connects to my Macbook. So it is the hardware and software, after more troubleshooting(1 hour later) I was able to connect again and hear and speak to my friends. YAY!(or so i thought) Once again 2 minutes later the dongle just wasnt installed or recognized. figures. I have yet to try this on linux, or on my imac that doesnt have bluetooth. I will edit this review once ive tested it.(EVEN THOUGH I BOUGHT THE DONGLE TO USE ON WINDOWS TO PLAY GAMES AND TALK TO FRIENDS!) Well if i could of there would probably be a lot of profanity in this review to the seller and the manufacture. Just to let them know that. Bottom Line: If your using it for data transfer and thats it dont install the software and wala it works. If you are using it for connecting a bluetooth headset steer away from this device. It doesnt even serve as a good paperweight. It cannot do anything right.

EDIT: It is not recognized on a mac. Figures.

I've had this for some time now, and had no trouble at all using it to connect to a GPS receiver and my mouse - completely plug-and-play. However, the device does not seem to support A2DP, which means that while my stereo headset connects without a problem, I'm not able to pass audio to it. I'm planning on purchasing a slightly more expensive Broadcom-based model that fits about the same form factor (and expressly indicates that it supports A2DP).

Note that it's also possible that the issue I'm experiencing is a software rather than a hardware issue, but given that I'm unable to install the necessary drivers for support of my device, I assume it's a hardware incompatibility.

Edit 12/29/09: I received my new adapter and confirmed that the problems I was experiencing were hardware related - this device either does not support A2DP, or simply doesn't support audio devices at all. Audio devices you pair with your computer will appear as installed devices, but will not be available to Windows as playback devices, so you won't get any sound from them.

The hardware is cheap feeling.

However the REAL con is the SOFTWARE. No driver support outside of bluesoleil. Ever heard of it? I hope not because god its a headache. Not only is it NOT FREE (yeah seriously, essentially a TRIAL edition driver...) but it's awful clunky and doesn't let you fully utilize your device. So in the end, you'll end up paying more for the crappy software, crappy support, and weak hardware.

Save your money and buy a linksys etc. Not to mention this device's bluetooth class is the short choppy range type. You could step up a class in the 20 dollar range and have something that has 3-5 times the range.

DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS PIECE OF ... HARDWARE.

I hope Bluesoleil honestly goes out of business for the gimmick scam. It's disenfranchising the wonderful thing bluetooth could be. I'll be doing my best to get a return. Wish me luck.

No drivers with mine - supposed to use the generic drivers according to the sales folks - and they know nothing beyond plug and play... here is how to make it work on XP SP3 and Microsoft BT mouse.

Uninstall any other bluetooth drivers and installations if you have had any other devices installed. Then plug this little flea in and once it says it is up and running - you have to then change some service settings. FUN!!!!

press WIN+R - type "services.msc

scroll to "Bluetooth Support Service" and double click

Make sure it is set to Automatic on the first tab - then click on the "Log On" tab.

Select "Local System account" and also the check box below that (Allow service....)

Restart the service by going back to the first tab and clicking stop, then start.

Remove and reinsert the dongle (in a different port will sometimes help) then try to pair again using 0000 as the vendor provided pass code (if you are using a microsoft BT mouse or something similar)

That should work... I got the info here -- [...]

My vista would not work with my sony ericsson bluetooth headset at ALL - but then I just plugged this in and it was almost just that simple! So cheap, but it saved me the lost cost of the bluetooth headset - well worth it! I did pay extra for shipping and didn't get it much (any) faster than I would have if I didn't - so I recommend not paying extra for shipping with this product!

I installed the device as the mini-DVD instructed, but, the device does not work with my Motorola wireless headset. The device was inexpensive, but, wasted much of my time.

I just bought this to hook my wiimote up to my windows 7 laptop. it works great and the driver is auto installed by windows. I have not had a chance to test the audio streaming as of yet.

Bought two of these as a way to transfer pics, music etc from my phone to my comp. I have a laptop with Vista. No drivers were available in Vista, so I checked online. After an hour of trying different driver downloads, still nothing. If they are gonna sell you a bluetooth dongle, doesn't it make sense to give you the driver for it as well? It's like selling someone a car but not giving them the keys. My recommendation is to not buy this dongle if you have Vista.

I use Linux as my primary operating system (Fedora 14) and after plugging in the Bluetooth Adapter to an available USB port, the device worked great. I was able to transfer files from my phone to my computer and vice-versa; the drivers must have been included with the operating system. As far as Bluetooth headsets/speakers, I really don't know. Overall this is great for Linux, I'm sure Ubuntu supports it as well.

I purchased this bluetooth adaptor, which I thought would work well. First of all, they just tossed it in an envelope, so once if got here the top part was dented in a bit, which made it hard to plug into my laptop the first time. Second, it has issues working well with other devices. I also purchased a bluetooth mouse at the same time, once they were both here, I set everything up, but the mouse was sketchy and skipping around the screen. I tested the mouse on 3 other machines and it worked fine, come to find out that it was this adaptor. Now, it could be all my fault, I purchased a bluetooth 2.0, instead of a 2.1 adaptor, and it did not work properly, so I purchased a 2.1 and it works excellent. So, I am not sure if it is a problem with the adaptor itself, or maybe it was my mistake for ordering the wrong part. Either way, the cost of the device is far less than sending it back and trying to get a refund, so we will leave it at that.