Linksys Bluetooth USB Technical Details

Linksys Bluetooth USB Description

Add Bluetooth Connection Capability to your PC!
The Linksys USB Bluetooth Adapter adds local wireless connectivity to your USB-equipped computer. Bluetooth technology lets you connect various electronic devices together wirelessly, eliminating the need for wires all over your desktop, and easily connecting your notebook to peripherals in an airport lounge without all the cable clutter.

With the USB Bluetooth Adapter plugged into a USB port on your notebook or desktop computer, you'll be able to connect with other Bluetooth-enabled devices to synchronize the data in your PDA, transfer files to other computers, send files to printers or fax servers, use a wireless mouse, keyboard, or telephony headset, or use your mobile phone as a link to the Internet, all without cables.

Up to seven Bluetooth 1.1 compatible devices can connect to the USB Bluetooth Adapter simultaneously, creating your own "Personal Area Network". The Adapter is a Class 1 long-range device, and is powered directly from the USB port, so there's no need for an external power supply. To keep your data secure, Bluetooth technology uses 128-bit encryption and a "frequency hopping" scheme that's almost impossible to intercept.

Linksys Bluetooth USB Reviews

REVIEW BY: Yi Reviewed Jul 06, 2007

Stay away from Linksys Bluetooth USB product. It is a waste of money buying it, because Linksys has never bothered to upgrade the driver for Linksys Bluetooth USB product, since the year 2003. The driver that comes with this CD (Setup Wizard version 1.05) is exactly the same version as the one found on Linksys website, a version created in the year 2003. I cannot believe this is how Linksys conducts their business? Selling a product which they never bother to update the driver for the past 4 years. I have a Linksys router bought 2 years ago. The router is working well. This badly supported bluetooth usb adapter completely changes my former good opinion of Linksys products. This driver is not working properly in both my Windows XP-based (with service pack 2) Desktop and Laptop: There is Internet Explorer Script Error messages when I double-clip the ''my bluetooth places'' icon on the desktop.

REVIEW BY: wrayx1 Reviewed Sep 11, 2007

Ignore the rant by reviewer with the script error. His/her error is caused by IE security not the Bluetooth installation had he/she bothered to search for a solution.

REVIEW BY: halltrista Reviewed Jun 10, 2008

I had absolutely no trouble with installation at all! Everything works wonderfully! The security features and range are worth the money alone. If you have any trouble with installation, install the drivers from the disk, and then let windows do it's thing, and restart. Windows may screw with the installation disc drivers and if so, simply reinstall the software after you restart. After that everything will work flawlessly. It isn't complicated and well worth the extra 2 minutes. Maybe the reviewers before didn't think of that, but I've had no problems at all.

REVIEW BY: Loegrus Reviewed Feb 24, 2007

Great range, nice product. Not for use with Vista however. Linksys shows no support coming for it. Bought withe Motorola HT820 headphones on Vista PC, problem seems to be with driver support on the Linksys. This is actually a broadcom chipset. But you can't use the latest broadcom drivers..they detect license and deactivate! (even then they only gave me mono)

REVIEW BY: rhooper1 Reviewed Jan 23, 2008

I've owned 3 different bluetooth adapters, and this was the worst! I have always trusted Linksys in the past for quality, but I will be more careful in the future! First this is only a 1.1 rating NOT a 2. Thats important. Second their software is 4 or 5 years old!!! And will not work with vista! And I had to uninstall a higher quality software just to get this to run.

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