Bluetooth

[Platinum Fox]

what is the best way to add Bluetooth to a desktop and is it easy?

[The Sloth]

PCIE wireless card that contains Bluetooth and wifi. 

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Platinum Fox said:

what is the best way to add Bluetooth to a desktop and is it easy?

3 2 ways

USB dongle

PCIE adapter

Download it

[Blebekblebek]

$1 bluetooth dongle

http://www.dx.com/p/super-mini-bluetooth-2-0-adapter-dongle-vista-compatible-11866

[arex86]

• 6 minutes ago, Blebekblebek said:

  $1 bluetooth dongle

  http://www.dx.com/p/super-mini-bluetooth-2-0-adapter-dongle-vista-compatible-11866

  The $1 is an option but its range is about 3 feet

[pommedeterror007]

There are 2/3 Ways to do this depending on what you really need.

 

1: Barebones Cheapy USB Adapters : These are just really cheapy adapters that will do the base job of offering bluetooth, they tend to be 2+$ (shipping takes awhile from china) and they will usually only offer upto like 2.0 Bluetooth Standard

 

2: Quality USB Adapters: These are what most people do, they cost around 10+$ depending on brand. These will offer better quality and more recent bluetooth revisions.

 

3: Wifi + Bluetooth PCIe Adapters: These tend to cost at least 20$ but offer the latest WiFi and Bluetooth protocols and best quality and range. 

 

[Platinum Fox]

39 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

PCIE wireless card that contains Bluetooth and wifi. 

hmm interesting. what would i do if the mother board i will be purchasing comes with wifi (asrock super carrier)?

[Blebekblebek]

it's a blutetooth, range is already standard specified, 10meters, newer version 4.0, 5.0 can go further.

Even if it can go further I don't see how is that practical at all. Sure transfering files/sync while you on toilets sounds very convinient, but wireless can do that even better, if we even ignoring the stability and signal quality.

 

Also the maximum speed of bluetooth is 1MB/s regardless the quality, because it works both ways, if your hardware is only Bluetooh 2.0 compliance, getting higher version would be pointless.

Why spend more for nothing.

[The Sloth]

use Ethernet, Windows will download all the wireless drivers that are nessery for function.