Kinivo USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC BTD500 (BT 5.0, Wireless Dongle Receiver for Windows 11/10/8.1/8, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu) - Compatible with Laptops, Headsets, Speaker, Mouse, Keyboard, Printers

Arrived a day early, and once it was plugged in there was no more to be done, having downloaded the driver from their website. As soon as you connect something for pairing, windows finds the driver and puts an icon on your desktop for any necessary configuring options applicable to the type of device connected, so you go to your desktop for one click connection & configuring options. I'm very content & happy to have this item.I am taking the opportunity to update this review after having had a unit apparently fail on me. I contacted the makers, who could not have been more helpful, with advice via e-mail. When their first sugestion didn't work. they immediately sent me a replacement post-haste.upon fitting the replacement unit, the light remained on until the drivers finished loading, and then went out. My attempts to see what I could find out from Microsoft, and other user forums revealed that Microsoft do not appear to care if you have problems with your hardware, just upgrade to the latest windows and all your problems will be solved. yeah, right......Back to the manufacturers, who sent right back a further e-mail suggestion, (basically, a full uninstall and re-install) which worked and the unit is sitting in its USB port working nicely. I have a sneaking suspicion that various windows and other third party driver updates may be playing a part in the fun & games. I was running the unit in a windows Vista PC, and could not find out anything specific about the registry settings relating to the Bluetooth software, but there are a number of very helpful websites out there who have what they claim to be the solution to a type 43 errorcode in windows (which is what windows was reporting to me as being the problem, but without any further explanation....)and offers you a free download to scan your system. Of course, the fix requires a licence for the sum of about $100.00 USD. Soooooo helpful, the yanks........The bottom line, is that this little unit will give you great functionality, if you need it in a PC that does not have bluetooth already installed, and do so at a very acommodating price. I can also thoroughly recommend the manufacturers helpfulness if there's a problem.

Having experienced a couple of Class 2 devices which lost connection with just my hand or a coffee table in the way, it was great to find this device can easily go effortlessly through an internal brick wall. I don't think this is clear enough in the device description, but the Broadcom chip set is Class 2.I also found that I can connect to all my BT devices, phone, Palm PDA and Bluetooth audio adapter. Not the case with my previous dongles.The software was slightly problematic. I had forgotten that with the Widcom/Broadcom stack you must not plug in the dongle to start with or even when asked, which results in the dongle not being detectable by the software. Despite this Windows XP was perfectly happy, recognising the device in Device Manager and reporting no problems. So I had to remove the sofware and re-install, plugging the dongle in when it had all finished. Windows then completed the process and all was well. Its about time Broadcom updated the manual to reflect this problem, which has been around for years.Incidently I had downloaded the latest update from the Broadcom website, but found it impossible to use this at the outset, because it expected the dongle to be installed already. So I used the version 5.6.0.7700 on the supplied CD. I am still on this which surprisingly is a bit clunky, so should perhaps upgrade. However not knowing what the latest version is like puts me off.However this issue shouldn't put anyone off the device which always has a good solid connection to many devices.

I'd never bought, or even looked for, Bluetooth USB adaptors before buying this. I really had no idea of the likely budget or complexity of such an item. However, I'd decided to get a pair of Bluetooth headphones to pair with my new tablet, and checked to see how difficult it would be to clear my desktop area of another few wires by getting an adapter to pair them with my tower PC as well. One website I spotted had an idiot's guide to pairing Bluetooth devices to PCs, and it just so happened that the Bluetooth adapter they'd used for all their tests with phones, headphones, speakers etc was this one. It almost seemed like a given to them - why would you use anything else?Based on that, plus the lower than expected price, I ordered this.It arrived promptly and was so easy to install and pair with the headphones (and a tablet and a phone). I'm using it with Windows 10, and I've tried it plugged in to both USB2.x and USB3 sockets. It's been working with no interruptions or upsets ever since I got it. Admittedly my use has been at close range so far, so I can't comment on the strength of signal and connection. But it does exactly what I'd hoped for. Very pleased indeed.

All good, prompt delivery. Works straight away