Bluetooth dongle anyone???

mattylad · 16-04-2010, 13:41

If anyone is wanting a USB2 compliant bluetooth dongle, they are available at Poundworld in Accy centre. (Not Poundland).

And they are only £1.

Cheapest I have ever seen.

Just got a few so the family can access their phones without a cable.

flashy · 16-04-2010, 16:42

kin ell, i paid a tenner for mine

robot1002 · 16-04-2010, 20:57

I will be rushing in tomorrow to get one at that price,...Thank's Matty.......Tony

mattylad · 17-04-2010, 00:47

I got 2 & will get a couple more next week.

As Bluetooth has been missed off my laptop & the rest of the families PC's I might as well give them the facility to talk to their phones.

entwisi · 17-04-2010, 16:54

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DealExtreme: Cool Gadgets at the Right Price - Site-Wide Free Shipping (Page 1) do them all the time for 2$ delivered which is similar and less if you take the bus fare of going to town into consideration

flashy · 17-04-2010, 18:18

ah but they only cost YOU a quid if someone gives you a lift into town

shillelagh · 17-04-2010, 18:33

or a free bus pass ..

mattylad · 17-04-2010, 18:34

And you can get it this week, from dealextreme it would normally take 2 weeks to arrive.
At the moment its just not coming at all

(I already have a DX one).

Studio25 · 18-04-2010, 11:51

Apparently you can use "internet connection sharing" via bluetooth - so this might be an alternative to shelling out on a wireless router if you want to cheaply connect your laptop to an internet connection that's being monopolised by (say) a desktop PC.

It's probably not up to the job of multiplayer games, and range might be limited to one room if you live in a real Lancashire house instead of one of these modern things with papier-mâché walls.

entwisi · 18-04-2010, 13:30

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i tend to find DX stuff normally comes in a week

i was offering an alternative to when these are no longer available.

as for ICS, its possible but windows does struggle to dns properly through it. i have set it up a couple of times and each time ended up setting routing and dns manually.

there is also different standards of BT, 1.1 is much slower than 2.0

Neil · 18-04-2010, 18:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattylad

I got 2 & will get a couple more next week.

As Bluetooth has been missed off my laptop & the rest of the families PC's I might as well give them the facility to talk to their phones.

I use bluetooth to talk from my laptop to phone but if I need to copy more than a couple of photos its so much faster plugging it in via USB.

mattylad · 18-04-2010, 19:40

I bet nowt will be coming from DX within the next few weeks

entwisi · 18-04-2010, 20:50

I use BT quite a lot for sharing stuff, its surprisingly good if you have BT 2.0 capable devices at both ends.

mattylad · 19-04-2010, 17:09

Oh dear, all gone today.

There was 2 rows of them on Friday.

I bet they are on a market stall for £3 each soon.

mattylad · 08-05-2010, 18:40

They are back in.

And if anyone plays the drums on their Xbox/Wii/PS2-3 then Poundland have RockBand official drumsticks in.