Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter ( 33085 )

Average customer rating: 2.5

poor performance
E-Z
It worked for me.
Horrible introduction to the world of bluetooth
Save your money

Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter ( 33085 )

Manufacturer: Kensington
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0001Q5SZ0

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Product Description

Connects to your Windows or Macintosh Computer to provide Bluetooth Wireless Capability / USB Port required Enables safe, encrypted wireless networking. Includes Bluetooth USB adapter with software CD and instruction manual, Kensington 1-year limited warranty and free technical support

Amazon Product Description

Bluetooth is one of the most recent developments in the ongoing battle for a wireless office. When a peripheral -- such as a cellular telephones, PDA, headset, mouse or keyboard -- is Bluetooth-equipped, it operates and communicates with the computer wirelessly. Of course, your computer also needs to be Bluetooth-equipped in order for the technology to work. Unfortunately, many are not -- particularly older and less expensive models.

That's where Kensington's Bluetooth USB Adapter comes in. Plugging into any available USB port, the compact unit (smaller than a cigarette lighter) adds secure, encrypted Bluetooth wireless technology to any Windows XP or Mac OSX computer. It links up to seven Bluetooth devices within a 65-foot range, and is compatible with all Bluetooth v1.1 and v2.2 enabled products. The Kensington Bluetooth Adapter comes with a software CD and instruction booklet, and is backed by a one-year limited warranty and free technical support.

Customer Reviews:

poor performance.......2006-08-30

This product sucks big time.Firstly, My laptop fails to recognise this product each time I plug it into my USB port .(My USB port works fine with all other peripherals).If in case it recognises after 10 frustrating trails,it connects and disconnects in no time.
I would certainly not recommend this product.

E-Z .......2006-06-15

This is the only adapter I found to synch with my Palm Tugsten 5 without doing any configuring.

It worked for me........2006-02-03

This product has worked for me on XP SP2 without problems.
It connects to my Motorola phone to transfer ringtones, addresses. It maintained connectivity beyond 20 feet.
I've had the product for several weeks, and don't have any
complaints.

The included driver disk has an old version of the drivers.
Go to ftp://ftp.kensington.com/bt , and download the 4.0.1.2400 driver.

Horrible introduction to the world of bluetooth.......2006-01-30

Apparently the bluetooth "standard" is not a standard at all. After a great deal of fighting, I was finally able to pair this with my motorola headset. But that was as far as I got. I can't get it connected and constantly get the response that a connection could not be obtained. Once I got connected as a fluke but only for a "good" strength connection even thought the headset was 2 inches away and the connection did not result in any response with the software I wanted to use it with. Connection dropped spontaneously a minute later. Complete garbage. However, if anyone knows of a bluetooth adapter that actually works, I'd love to hear about it.

Save your money.......2006-01-16

I purchased this product and was very very dissapointed. The software for this product is very bad. I had to take it off my laptop as it caused a lot of problems with my system even when the bluetooth device wasn't plugged in. So I figure no problem, go to the Kensington web site and get some updated software. Kensington has NO software for it listed on their site. What a joke of a company. My guess would be they didn't want to invest in R&D for the software so they are just dumping inventory of a failed product. I will NEVER buy any product from Kensington afgter this experience.

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