Recommendations for a USB BlueTooth dongle

[Guest DJBenson]

I want to use my new C500 to remotely control Winamp and WMPlayer on my PC from various places in the house. I've downloaded the software for the phone/pc from http://www.labtech.epitech.net/remotecontrol/ but it states it needs a dongle that is natively supported under XP SP2.

Can anyone recommend such a device from a UK supplier?

[Guest Confucious]

They all are - just find a nice cheap one and make sure you DON'T install any drivers that come with it.

[Guest Ben Horley]

Can anyone recommend such a device from a UK supplier?

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I bought a TDK one a while ago and hve found it perfect. I'm really into playing with coms, etc and with TDK you get a ton of software and it works really well.

You can get it from here...

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=106259

[Guest Confucious]

£56 for a BT dongle! I only paid about £20 for mine and that was a couple (maybe 3) years ago - they've come down in price since then as well.

[Guest ChrisJM]

Depend what type of range you're looking for. Mine has good range but is hard to set up in sp2. I think il be blowing some money on a nice belkin one soon :)

[Guest Confucious]

"Nice" and "belkin" in the same sentence?

[Guest J_erry]

Ebuyer sells class I (100m) bt dongles for £15. They've only got 2,400 in stock though, so you better hurry :)

[Guest DJBenson]

Just ordered the eBuyer 100m one - seems to have good reviews and for £15 it's a pretty safe bet.

Is it possible to use the bluetooth connection to view the internet/use MSN on the phone using the passthrough connection?

[Guest Confucious]

yes

[Guest mike-oh]

Just ordered the eBuyer 100m one - seems to have good reviews and for £15 it's a pretty safe bet.

Is it possible to use the bluetooth connection to view the internet/use MSN on the phone using the passthrough connection?

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How are you getting on with your ebuyer dongle? is it any good?

Anyone else here got one? I'm eyeing one up myself as my jam is arriving on wednesday! YAY!

[Guest wheresalan]

Not putting a downer on things, but smartphones that support bluetooth are class 2 bluetooth devices. Which means they have a maximum range of 10m.

Of course you can use a class 1 dongle for other things than Smartphones, I'd just thought I would point it out! :lol:

Al

Edited February 7, 2005 by wheresalan