Which BlueTooth Dongle to get ?

ahll

I am looking to get a Bluetooth Dingle having never bought one before. Can anyone recommend a good reasonably priced one ?

I have found this one on 7dayshop but I have no idea if it is a good one as I really dont know what i am looking for !

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=99394

Zahc

I can tell you which one not to get if you have Vista and that's the Tesco Teknica job. Can't get the blessed thing to work with vista, OK with XP though.

Zahc

zenmaster

They are all pretty much the same. The 7dayshop one says it's Vista ready or take a chance on this one. At $7.99 including postage it's probably worth a chance. Delivery takes about a week, but then so does 7dayshop.

Blacksheep1979

there was one for 1p on amazon the other day -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/GIZMO-DEALS-100M-Bluetooth-USB-Dongle/dp/B000OF97PA/ref=sr_1_31/203-3818445-3658314?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1179430886&sr=1-31

ahll

Oh sorry I didnt know I needed to mention that I am running Vista on my laptop

Who this one be ok ?

http://www.ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA3003.htm

Zahc

Don't know about that one, but the following should work.

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Zahc

wolfman

D-Link DBT-120. I think that's what it's called.

Works out of the box in OSX, Linux, Windows XP SP2, and Vista.

Never had a single problem with mine. There may be better out that can get keyboards to act as HID devices when booting (so you can access the BIOS etc...).

ahll

Do you mean this one ?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-USB-Bluetooth-Adapter-DBT-120/dp/B00006B7DB/ref=sr_1_1/026-4971858-4182854?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1179693349&sr=8-1#moreAboutThisProduct

wolfman

Yep that's the one. I got mine for £12 ages back. I'm sure you could find a better price than that.

dubwarrior2

I got a cheap "TARGUS" one from tescos for about £8 and it works fine with VISTA. Had no probs with it at all.

ahll

In the end I got the one from the 7dayshop. However I have just come to install the software for it that I got on a disc with it but an error message comes up and the installation fails. Can someone point me in the direction where I can get some software for this so I can actually try using it !

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=99394