| D-Link DBT-120 Wireless Bluetooth 2.0 USB Adapter |
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Model: DBT-120
Brand: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 254
Operating system: Apple MacOS X 10.1.4 or later
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Bluetooth
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| Features: |
Sync Data between Your Bluetooth PDA, Mobile Phone, and PC
Secure Encyption for Enhanced Network Protection
Experience The Convenience of Bluetooth Headphones, Cameras, Mice, and Keyboards
Works with PC & Mac
Plug and play |
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| Description: |
| D-Link DBT-120 PersonalAir Wireless USB Bluetooth Adapter - Finally, thanks to Bluetooth technology, we can kiss those annoying wires goodbye! Using this Bluetooth adapter on your PC or Macintosh computer, you can wirelessly access any Bluetooth-enabled device. Devices such as printers, cellular phones, PDAs, & more. This adapter supports up to 7 such Bluetooth devices and has a range of 33 feet. Extremely portable, this adapter can be taken with you anywhere. Use it on your notebook or desktop! |
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| User Reviews (254 total): |
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DBT-120 - Easy to install and good documentation, October 4, 2005
By user (NJ, USA)
The equipment was easy to install and had the best documentation for the same. Also trouble shooting was easy. The range is good and reliable.
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BUYER BEWARE, October 2, 2005
By user
I followed the instructions that came with this device exactly. The last step said to open My Bluetooth Places. I did that and nothing happened. After researching this I find out that I need a security code. I emailed D-LINK and two different people responded with different answers (not good). One says to go and follow 7 pages of instructions. I do that and it doesn't work. The other says to go to a web site to get a security code. This has been a NIGHTMARE!
Multiple calls to tech support later and this device is still not working.
If you're looking for a bluetooth adapter that works right out of the box stay away from this one.
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D-Link DBT-120 Bluetooth USB Adaptor, October 2, 2005
By user (Lexington, Kentucky -USA-)
Solid piece of engineering for my PowerBook G4!
Inexpensive addition to the two year old workhorse.
Works great ... cost one evening on the town!
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Plug and play with a Mac., October 2, 2005
By user (San Francisco, CA USA)
I bought this bluetooth "dongle" to sync my Palm Tungsten E2 PDA with my FP iMac G4, and to grab photos from my wife's Nokia 6230 phone camera which the Mac does not support with a wired connection. The DLink bluetooth adapter works great and I have wireless connectivity with both devices. Syncing with my Palm is a lot slower than by wire so I am marking the adapter down one star. This knock may be unfair because such performance may be due to limitations in bluetooth not the DLink adapter. The photos came over very fast. I am very happy with the purchase.
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It works, September 21, 2005
By user (Tucson, AZ)
Does everything I need: OBEX File Transfer with my Motorola E815 (Verizon, seem-edited), works with my Logitech Mobile Freedom headset to use VOIP clients on my laptop. However, using the headset with my PC, I get terrible static. It might be because my wireless router is 3 feet away, but I haven't verified that yet. I don't have any other devices to test it with.
BE SURE TO INSTALL THE DRIVERS BEFORE YOU PLUG IN THE ADAPTER, OR THE MICROSOFT BLUETOOTH STACK WILL INSTALL ITSELF. IT IS A HASSLE TO GET RID OF.
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Works great with Fedora Linux, September 20, 2005
By user (Chicago, IL)
I bought this unit without knowing for sure it was going to be easy to get working with Linux (Fedora Core 4 specifically) and I'm happy to report that it does work. I followed the instructions at http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Using_Linux_and_Bluetooth_DUN_with_the_Treo650.php and with only one minor change it's now working great. It's not something I use every day but has already come in very handy while traveling.
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Easy Bluetooth Adapter, September 17, 2005
By user (Columbia, SC)
I purchased this DBT-120 Bluetooth Adapter so I could link my phone and computer together. This was a great plug-n-play experience, I have never worked with Bluetooth before. I plugged in the adapter, the Bluetooth software on my Mac started up immediately and I made my settings. Then told my phone to turn on Bluetooth and there it was, a connection! If you need a Bluetooth antenna for your computer this is the way. Very simple, user friendly, can't ask for more.
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Works great, install difficult, September 15, 2005
By user (Bedford, NH)
The unit has been working fine. I did have trouble installing under WindowsXP. The wrong driver, Cambridge Silicon Radio, got installed. Once I corrected this I have had no problems.
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Something of a pain, but it works, September 8, 2005
By user
Pros
- headset compatible
- small
- cheap
- good range with my Logitech Mobile Freedom headset
Cons
- erratic behavior
I purchased this to use with my Logitech Mobile Freedom Bluetooth Headset, as well as my Motorola RAZR V3 phone. Both work fine. It took some doing to get the headset to work with it. This turned out to be because you must pair the headset, then set the bluetooth audio as the default play / record device in the Audio control panel, and THEN quick-connect to the headset. I suppose all this isn't necessarily relevant to the review, but maybe it'll help someone else out or save them some time.
My one complaint at this point is that the "System Properties" "Hardware" page keeps popping up from time to time, and always on start-up. I'm not sure why it happens, but it's not often enough to really bother me. Uninstalling / reinstalling the accompanying software hasn't helped. Also, I expect other adapters might do the same because almost all of them use the same Widcomm driver (including this one), just with different branding.
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Just works !!!!!!, September 8, 2005
By user (Florida, USA)
I wanted to send a file from a mac ibook to a pc laptop and I haven't used bluetooth before. I just plugged it and sent the file. It just works.
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D-Link DBT-120 Bluetooth USB Adapter, PC/Mac, September 8, 2005
By user
I use this on a Mac OSX, and it's great. You don't even need to load a driver. It's plug & play. So far no problems.
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Value for money, September 7, 2005
By user (Seattle, WA USA)
I have been using this D-Link DBT-120 for 3 weeks and it works great! There are no issues till now and it is very simple to use. The only con I feel is, it does not come with a close cap for closing the usb pin when not in use. Except this, everything is fine.
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PERFECT MAC OS X INTEGRATION, September 3, 2005
By user (Miami, Florida United States)
The OS X (Panther and Tiger, as well) have preinstaled drivers for this piece. No CD installation required. Just plug in the Bluetooth to your USB, open the application utility, set your preferences and you're set. Great range, nice speed, nice everything.
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Pretty Good for the Price, September 1, 2005
By user
The Dlink DBT-120 is a pretty decent bluetooth adapter for the price. It cost me $12 after the mail in rebates. It is however, not as easy as plug and play adapater. Please follow the instruction on the DLink website for WinXP Sp2 installs and you should not have problems. However, please note if you install software eg: Cell Phone software eg: Motorolas Mobile Phone tools etc or some other device that use standard windows drivers, these software or windows reset the Bluetooth driver to the Windows generic drivers.
Windows generic drivers are fine if you want to transfer files etc but pretty bad if you want to run certain services eg: Audio Gateway,Network sharing etc.
I have managed to connect my Cell phone RazrV3 to my PC , Bluetooth headset to the PC and use it as my PC headset, Palm T3 for internet browsing.
The only problem with all these devices is you cannot walk too far from the Adapater range probably about 15 feet after which certain devices will start having connectivity issues.
Overall though this device is bargain for the price
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Worst BT adapter I ever saw., August 30, 2005
By user (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
I used it for more than 1 year, everyday, with my Mac (from 10.1 to 10.3) and my Palm Tungsten T and Nokia 3650. After installing software on my Nokia or any other data transfer, from Palm or cell phone, it would just die and BT became unavalable until I plugged it off and restarted my Mac, but I was ok with that since I did't use BT all that much.
Then I sold my Nokia, didn't use a lot of BT with my Palm anyway and so I stopped using it for 3 months, until I bought a Motorola RAZR V3. Now it dies out just after recognizing my V3, I just can't Sync with it even though it is in iSync panel - everytime I start, the adapter turns off by itself.
And I bought D-Link, expensive brand, because I thought they were 'especially made for Macs'.
D-Link support just replied saying that I have a defective unit and told me to try to get it fixed locally because there was nothing they could do. VERY helpful.
I am never buying another D-Link product again. My friends have 'generic' Taiwanese 10-buck BT adapters that never stopped working, on Macs or PCs.
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great product for the money, August 28, 2005
By user
With both rebates, this adapter costs less than $20. Installed easily and runs fine on winxp. Make sure you pull down the latest drivers from the d-link website and you should be fine.
Mike
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Usage, August 28, 2005
By user (USA)
The product is pretty good and usefull too. Best part is that its plug and play.
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works well after some tweking of WIN XP2, August 23, 2005
By user (Ramona, CA United States)
The manual was a bit confusing, but XP found the device each of 4 separate attempts. I them conducted a troubleshoot under WIN XP and disovered that I needed to delete the MS Generic BT radio. After that, all went flawlessly and I was able to pair up with my 2005 Prius and Motorola e815 cellphone.
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No Brainer, August 18, 2005
By user (Seattle)
With a MacIntosh, just plug it in and go. It came with software to make windows machines functional but didn't need it. It did the iSync with my Bluetooth enabled phone and I was ready to go. A cable would work just fine but it is cool to be completely wireless.
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Terrible installation for Windows XP, August 14, 2005
By user
Trying to install this product in Windows XP was terrible, XP wanted to use the generic drivers for the product since the generic ones were digitally sign and didn't want to use the ones that were actually for this hardware, I had to go in a tell it specifically what drivers to use before i could continue to follow the instructions provided with the Bluetooth adapter.
D-Link fails to have any new drivers on their site that have passed the compatibility tests for Windows XP, so you're stuck with using the ones that haven't been proven to be stable.
However, once I had successfully installed the product it seemed to work more or less correctly, except every so often my regular internet connection would die, because XP would start trying to get the internet over the Bluetooth for unknown reasons.
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