IOGEAR USB 2.1 Bluetooth Micro Adapter (GBU421) by IOGEAR
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Digital camera reviews of IOGEAR USB 2.1 Bluetooth Micro Adapter (GBU421)
Digital camera Review: Bad experience
Summary: 1 Stars
Everything went wrong with this device from the day one. I have a Vista OS and for some strangest reason this IOGear Micro Adapter GBU421 never worked. I tried uninstalling and installing, contacted tech support, tried using Microsoft's built in bluetooth support on Vista - all in vain. I don't know if its just me, for my luck I think I had some issues within. By the way, I bought my device from Buy.com and it was sold by a vendor called Beach Audio. So maybe its just a bad vendor???Digital camera Review: Best BT dongle I've owned
Summary: 5 Stars
This dongle is the best hands down works great in W7 x64 the drivers you need come from Iogears website. Huge plus IT WORKS IN MOTIONINJOY (the ps3 controller software). This thing has at least 30ft range I tried to type on a BT keyboard outside of my house and it still worked. Supports all things BT: A2DP, EDR, enhanced EDR, PAN, all the different style of packets as well.Digital camera Review: Best Bluetooth adapter I have tried yet!!
Summary: 5 Stars
To start off, I have an HP DV-4 laptop with Windows Vista premium home 64bit. I purchased a different Bluetooth USB 2.0 Micro Adapter Dongle for a little more than a dollar. The unit came with no software, I had to search and find the software IVT Bluesoleil and then it gave me 2 minutes of play time, plus the distance was 10 feet from the machine. I purchased the software. Now I could play music, but found out that the unit was not for me, the distance was too short, left the software in and purchased this unit the IOGEAR ADAPTER!! Just plugged it in and now I can walk into the kitchen with my bluetooth headphones sounding great. This is the unit I was looking for !!!! I never tried the IOGEAR software CD that came with the unit. Great job, IOGEAR!Digital camera Review: Best Value
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's cut to the chase- it has worked perfectly so far, it's solid, small, and discrete, AND very inexpensive. I have a netbook without a CD/DVD drive, so I had to download the drivers... but that was extremely easily done with a google searchDigital camera Review: Beware before installing with Vista
Summary: 4 Stars
*** My comments (below) are from January 2009. One of the more recent comments (April 2010) states that my issues are no longer valid. Just a heads up that things change/improve over time. ***
The product works (eventually) and is low priced and is tiny. But, before you install it, please consider the following. Customer care by Iogear is horrendous.
The first hurdle is bad instructions. Step 1 for Vista says you MUST insert the device. Then step 8 says DO NOT insert the device. 8 is correct, by the way.
Still, the included ver. 5 drivers do not work with Vista. When you contact the vendor for help, they'll tell you where the ver. 6 drivers reside. They're marked 221 thru 321 so you think they don't work with the 421, but they do. Oh, you need the revised instructions, too. By the way, the included disc says nothing about the software version. You have to watch for it after launching setup.
So, get ver. 6 drivers or later, get the latest instructions, and don't plug in until the drivers are fully installed in Vista.
I asked if the drivers were necessary since Vista wants to provide its own, and tech support said yes, you need to install them.
I tried tech support's live chat. They pointed me to newer instructions that said to wait before connecting, but they said nothing about the ver. 5 drivers and Vista incompatibility. After wasting 2 hours installing and uninstalling, I emailed to tech support. I wrote at midnight and when I got up bright and early, I had a URL for the proper drivers and instructions. The final installation was flawless and the device works fine.