| 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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Fine Piece of Technology, December 18, 2007
By Pirate Marmot (Oklahoma City, OK)
This product works very well for what I need it for. I use it to send ringtones, themes, wallpapers, pictures, music, games and such to my phone from my computer. It makes sending and receiving things to and from my computer and phone very simple. The best part about it for me is that I can make my own ringtones on my computer from my music then use this bluetooth adapter to send it to my phone so I don't have to spend any money on cool ringtones. I even have an older macintosh computer and it works great! I recommend this product who needs to adapt their computer device to use bluetooth.
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Works for my Mac, But...., December 11, 2007
By APhotoWizard (Canton, GA USA)
While I am an old time computer user (started in 1968) I have never owned a bluetooth device until I was recently acquired a Motorola RAZR. I looked around for a way to get the music and ring tones from my older Mac (G4 running OS X 10.4.11) to the RAZR. I found the D-Link device and saw many positive reviews so I ordered one. It arrived and with much fanfare, I opened the box then inserted the device into the end of the USB extension cable. This cable is a high quality shielded cable about 28 inches long I leave plugged into my Adaptec powered hub since my computer does not have a USB port on the front.
I then spent over 4 hours trying to figure out why the bluetooth preference did not show up in the set of system preferences. No mater what I tried it was not there, the bluetooth preference had disappeared. I read the manual, searched the vendor web site, and searched Apples web site all with with no luck.
The most irritating part was that it worked perfectly for my wife on her e-mac. She just plugged it in, opened the system preferences selected bluetooth, followed the on screen directions and installed her ring tone. ( And I am supposed to be the computer expert in our house... Grrrr..)
After I slept on the matter, I unplugged the adaptor from the cable and inserted it directly into the Adaptec powered hub (Not sure why I thought of this) and presto all was right with the world. The setup was a breeze, and I now drag and drop files to and from the RAZR v3xx in true Mac fashion with no problem. (My wife used the USB port on the side of her computer the first time)
Thus in two out of two tries, the device works exactly as advertised - right out of the box. I just wish someone somewhere had told me to beware of cables and plug the device directly into the computer port. Perhaps after you read this you will know to remove the cable if your bluetooth system preference does not show up.
- Jerry
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"Not our problem", December 9, 2007
By SOS-customer assistance (Walnut Creek, CA)
Tried for hours to get this adapter to work with my Treo 680. My device is detected when I use the adapter, but I am unable to make a connection. Finally, called D-Link technical support. First response was that they had never heard of the product; next response was that I needed to select a different number on the support phone tree; last response was that the problem was probably with my mobile provider or PC. After many hours of installing and reinstalling the product; and trying to have my mobile provider detect any problems with data service; and contacting Palm technical support (waste of time since Palm wound up referring me to User Guide), I finally gave up.....and have returned the product. This should not be a difficult product to install, and is not worth the time and effort to teach the D-Link technical support individuals about their product.
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Perfect with my G5, November 21, 2007
By Bill Cawley Photography (Washington State)
I opted for this rather than the Apple kit since it was less expensive and much easier to install to add Bluetooth to my PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7. Works flawlessly with my Apple wireless keyboard and didn't require any software install, OS X Tiger 10.4 treats it just like the native device. Perfect.
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Excellent for Linuxoids, November 17, 2007
By Oleksiy Nikitin
I like this adapter beause it works great with my Fedora Core linux OS. I didn't have to install additional software or spend long time to configure it.
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DBT-120 and Toshiba Satellite a75-s229, November 5, 2007
By Ion (Boston, MA)
I purchased this product to transfer some files from a cell phone to a new cell. I was too lazy to retype every contact I have there. And laziness is truly a vice!
Anyways back to the issue. I have a Toshiba A75-s229 laptop with two network adapters Atheros AR 5004G Wireless and Realtek RLT8139, XP Pro SP2. The installation went smoothly. I restarted the PC as needed. The setup prompted with a message describing certain possible Wireless card issues that might occur as the result of Bluetooth installation. Fine...
I turned the installed program on (for some reason it is a 30-day evaluation version) and got stuck on a part where it asked me to type a Device PIN to authorize communication between my PC and cell phone. I wasn't exactly sure what my default PIN was so I decided to google the whole process up. Here is when the fun began!
My wireless connection was enabled, but had a huge red cross over the icon. So I right clicked to fix it. Not only that I couldn't, I couldn't even disable/enable it in the Network Connections. But anyways, the program sincerely warned me about possible wireless card issues, right? So I plugged an Ethernet cable. But soon realized that my LAN connection is also completely messed up! I couldn't disable it. But the funny part was that even if I would get the cable out, the icon would show that my connection is up and running :)My whole PC was all of a sudden very slow. (while the CPU Usage was at 2%)
Ipconfig would bring nothing (as if I don't even have any network interface) Msconfig wouldn't even show this utility in the startup items. Restarting took me more than 30minutes. (I ended up using on/off button).And no it wasn't the anti-virus.
I tried to uninstall the program. After 60min my nerves have finally been defeated. I tried to cancel the uninstall- which after 15min told me that it was canceled. I went to the Safe mode to uninstall it from there. Guess what? the program didn't even showed up in the Add/Remove menu :) But the PC was still completely messed up. No network, no automatic shutdown (only on/off switch :) ) I ended up using System Restore to restore it to couple of hours before the D-Link device setup.
Thank God it works as it did before!
Here is the funny part. I have a second, old HP, laptop. (No Wireless Card) Installed the D-Link: WORKS. (Still 30-day evaluation version of the software, but at least it WORKS)
I am not really sure what caused the problem on my Toshiba. But I know one thing-DLink Bluetooth is going back to where it came from tomorrow morning!
So here is my advice to all the people that like me will buy the product despite all the warnings and all the negative experiences of the [...] shoppers:
Before you install it make sure that you create a SYSTEM RESTORE Checkpoint. So you can roll back all you device drivers and settings in a case that something goes wrong...
Best of luck.
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as expected, used my bluetooth headphone as PC wireless headphone !, November 1, 2007
By b_ki
I got this for the sole purpose of using my bluetooth headphone as wireless headphone for my pc. Within seconds was able to use it.
During installation,the pc kind of acts crazy with multiple pop ups but eventually the installation went fine.
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Vista and Toshiba stack great, no A2DP though!, November 1, 2007
By Will (MerryLand, USA)
This product works great with my Logitech Bluetooth mouse. I didn't even install any software- my Laptop came with Windows Vista and Toshiba "Bluetooth Stack"-
I plugged it in and didn't need to install any drivers. It found my mouse right away. I can unplug it and plug it back in, and it immediately is configured, no messing around with waiting for it to find the device again, etc...
The only Cons are that this DOES NOT SUPPORT A2DP audio streaming. (Per an email from their tech support I finally got back today.) I wanted to get some headphones to listen to my laptop but all the headphone reviews say that if you don't have A2DP then it will sound "tinny". (so minus 2 Stars!)
And I wish I'd gotten a PCMCIA adapter so I don't worry about busting this dongle-type device off.
Otherwise it works just as it should and I'm pretty happy with it- I just need to 'upgrade' to a newer one I guess..
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bad size, October 10, 2007
By B. Rattan
For two USB slots, once you put this bluetooth you can not use the other port because its thickness interferes with other USB use!!
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Works fine on my Mac Mini, October 10, 2007
By mac user (Music City USA, TN)
Had it for about a week. Works fine on a mac mini using a mighty mouse and the new (Oct 2007) apple wireless keyboard MB167ll/a.
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Nice dongle, September 20, 2007
By Soufix (Chicago, IL)
Powerful bluetooth dongle... All what i expected.
Allows to connect, whatever PDA/Bluetooth Headset(and use it as headphones for music in high quality, or for Skype-msn as headset+mic)/Cell phone (SonyEricsson)... No problem with drivers compatibility with windows XP. No system crash as i experienced with other bluetooth dongles... and good transmission power (about 10 m from my desktop).
Thanks & Good job D-link
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Bluetooth for Treo 680 HotSync and Razor V3, September 11, 2007
By Al D. (Trappe, PA USA)
I bought this Bluetooth adapter to HotSync my Palm Treo 680 - it costs less than another cable from Palm and it can do more. I have Windows XP Home SP2. I didn't use the D-Link CD to install the adapter (after reading other people's experiences). I just plugged it into the USB port and it worked perfectly. Following the instructions in the Treo manual helped a little.
A few days later, it didn't connect when I tried to HotSync. It appeared to be a Palm problem, and after a soft reset on the Treo it worked again. The DBT-120 is listed in the Palm knowledge base as being compatible with Treo 680.
Some notes on this adapter: The one I received is black with red logo, not gray and blue as shown. It is the model shown on D-Link's website. It comes with a USB extension cable. It is USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0. I haven't found the range to be all that great, but the package states "up to 30 ft." (Class 2 ???)
I also tried the DBT-120 with my wife's Motorola Razor V3 and it worked great to send and receive pictures between the phone and the PC.
Great product.
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Bluetoothadapter, September 10, 2007
By Gayle Teague (Dawson Springs, Ky.)
works well with keyboards but not very well with cell phones very difficult to link up.Device has not been updated for windows Vista. Worst purchase I have made so far, have set aside not using anymore, customer support from manufacturer, not good at all.
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Adding BlueTooth to a Mac...this just works!, September 10, 2007
By Jeff Schaffer (Ridgefield, CT)
I ordered this to support an Apple BlueTooth Keyboard with an older Mac Pro. I plugged it into an external USB hub, turned on the keyboard, and was using it in less than a minute.
What more could I ask?
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Awesome, September 8, 2007
By Vinit (Houston TX)
I am using windows XP home edtion and have Nokia E62.. this item works perfect for tethering, connecting headset and file transfer. No problem whatsoever in installing driver also. I like is very much.
Would recommend if you are buying for tethering your nokia cell phone.
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works great with Vista and Mac OS 10.4.10, September 7, 2007
By John R. Fitzgerald (Burlington, WI)
Bought the DBT-120 last April, mainly because I'm cheap and the offer [$25 less $10 rebate] made it hard to pass up.
Easy to install, no drivers required with Vista [built-in ones suffice], likewise with the Mac(s) we use it on. Range is fine [reaches the 12' or so across the room when used with our 'media center' running Vista].
Considering buying another one, will probably get it as it's still bundled with a rebate. Hard to go wrong at this price.
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It would not install until I found an alternate driver, September 7, 2007
By AVIAweb (Northborough, MA USA)
I got this because it was reported to be one of the only PC bluetooth adapters to link well to a Prius for phone book transfers, but is has been a pain. I previously had a belkin bluetooth key and it was pretty good but the car would not talk with it. This one would not either after jumping though hoops to make it install. Just a dissapointment.
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It "just worked" with Windows XP built in drivers, September 6, 2007
By Paul D. English
Did you know that the Blackberry bluetooth modem functionality requires an adaptor that works with Windows XP's built in bluetooth drivers? Yes, the built-in drivers don't support bluetooth stereo. But most add-on ones do. So you get to pick.
At any rate, this dongle "just worked" with the built in drivers. It is actually rather difficult to figure out what dongle _selling today_ will do that. All the lists of "what works with the built in XP drivers" seem to be dated from when Microsoft released XP or when they released their Bluetooth driver update for XP. Unfortunately it is very difficult to translate that into the make/models of devices that are sold currently.
This one works. Buy it if you need this. It also comes with non-Microsoft drivers that presumably do support Bluetooth stereo if you need that (and are willing to sacrifice your Blackberry DUN support). Get it while it's here because tomorrow there will be some different model on the market that may or may not work and this one will be gone.
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D-Link Bluetooth to USB, August 24, 2007
By E. Price (Grass Valley, CA)
The D-Link DBT-120 is not compatible with a Mac. The units will not function.
I have been sent three units, none work.
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ActiveSync with Treo 700wx, August 6, 2007
By TrafInfo
I bought this product to sync my Treo 700wx with my laptop (which did not have bluetooth). I had problems initially when I used the drivers provided with the product. However, when I reinstalled it and used the drivers within XP SP2 itself, everything worked great.
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