
kg9dk
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I am looking for a Bluetooth dongle for my laptop and have found them price from less then a dollar on the internet to $22.++ at Best Buy. I am wondering what the differance might be other then the bottom line. Any suggestions where to buy from or brand.
kg9dk
It's really hard to tell until you try
One thing I would recommend... be careful about installing third party bluetooth stacks - in my experience, they never work. Always use the windows bluetooth stack.
I have a $3 no name one from Frys that works as well as the Toshiba that was built into my old Dell laptop. I have had one issue connecting to a serial device, but I can't connect from another device either, so I don't think it is a problem with the module.
I've had pretty good luck with getting bluetooth dongles from Deal extreme, they seem to work every time with WinXP without issue. You can find them
here.
Then some one menition "stacks" sounds like I have a whole new Bluetooth world to explore.
I went the "Extreme Deal "site, I like the fact that gave some information that jive with what I had read at Wikipedia, and they had reviews. I order a BT dongle. It sounds like it may be coming from Hong Kong so that may take awhile.
I will probably be back often Thanks for the help.
John.kg9dk
We mostly bring it up because people who install stacks other than Microsoft's on Windows 7 tend to have more problems than if they just let Microsoft handle it.
Alan