D-Link DBT-120 Wireless Bluetooth USB Adapter
by D-Link
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Our Price: $50.00 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: CE See more product details |
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Customer Review: Adequate, but could be better.
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this product to use with the new Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse that I received. I have a Quicksilver G4, kinda old, so I needed to add the bluetooth capability to make the peripherals work. I read many positive and negative reviews for this product but ultimately, I bought it because that's explicitly what Apple recommended.
It works just fine when connected. The only problems I have come with the computer being in sleep mode. I can no longer wake up the machine using the mouse of keyboard like I could with the connected keyboard & mouse. So it's a little frustrating to have to touch the screen every time instead of simply jiggling the mouse or hitting a key. I don't know if this is a universal problem with bluetooth or it's just my system, but either way it bugs the crap out of me.
Customer Review: Flimsy and fragile
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this to work with my Macintosh. I needed a wireless USB adapter to work with my wireless keyboard and mouse. Since this was the least expensive unit, I bought it. I installed it with no trouble, and it performed well. After owning it for a couple weeks, I was moving my computer around and bumped the adapter against my desk. The two halves of the outer plastic casing popped off and the metal connector bent slightly. I popped the case back together and straighted it out, but it no longer worked. Since I thought it was my fault, I bought another one. I had only owned the second one a couple days, when I bumped the adapter with my foot while crossing my legs. Guess what? The same thing happened. This time I don't think it's my fault. The price is good and the performance is okay, but the construction is flimsy.Customer Review: Good piece of hardware, weak software
Summary: 3 Stars
If you don't mind fiddling with software installs then this is a good bluetooth adapter to choose. It's the smallest that I could find and the range is great: My computer upstairs has no trouble connecting to my phone downstairs.Overall I give this product 3 stars because the software seems flakey. One one of my Win2K computers the install said that it completed but when I rebooted it complained about not finding BtBalloon.dll. I searched the install files and found a file called BBalloon.dll. So I copied it to \WINNT\system32 and renamed it BtBalloon.dll and it was happy. On another computer the software just stopped working and I had to reinstall.
As others have said download the latest drivers from the DLink web site and don't use the ones on the CD.
I use this device to connect to my Sony Ericsson T616
Customer Review: Worked perfectly first time, and always has
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the perfect gadget as far as I'm concerned. It's cheap, it's small, it's light, you plug it in and you have Bluetooth, no configuration necessary.At least, it works perfectly with my 800MHz G3 iBook running OS X. It seems that XP users may have a little more difficulty. I wouldn't want to say anything about that as I might look smug.
Anyway, if you have other BT devices it's wonderful. I've used it to send and receive files to and from a Tungsten T, a T616 and a Nokia 3650. (If you don't have any other BT devices, why would you want this device?) I've also used the T616 and 3650 as portable wireless modems, and, while expensive, this is *the* best use for the D-Link with a laptop. You can get net access anywhere you can get a cellphone signal.
I really can't think of anything bad about the D-Link.
Customer Review: Terrible installation for Windows XP
Summary: 2 Stars
Trying to install this product in Windows XP was terrible, XP wanted to use the generic drivers for the product since the generic ones were digitally sign and didn't want to use the ones that were actually for this hardware, I had to go in a tell it specifically what drivers to use before i could continue to follow the instructions provided with the Bluetooth adapter.
D-Link fails to have any new drivers on their site that have passed the compatibility tests for Windows XP, so you're stuck with using the ones that haven't been proven to be stable.
However, once I had successfully installed the product it seemed to work more or less correctly, except every so often my regular internet connection would die, because XP would start trying to get the internet over the Bluetooth for unknown reasons.