BlueSoleil - what a piece of rubbish!
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I recently bought a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle because my older Acer TravelMate 4070 came without Bluetooth support. Big mistake. The dongle (a Laser N1968) ships with BlueSoleil - a suite of Bluetooth drivers for windows. My Nokia 6110 Navigator and PC Suite simply hate BlueSoleil - after umpteen pairings and unpairings of the devices, driver installations and re-installations and checking all congifurations, I simply cannot get BlueSoleil to work properly with PC Suite. What a piece of rubbish! C’mon people, Bluetooth is all about interoperability!
- PC Suite version : 7.0.8.2
- BlueSoleil version: 2.1.2.1
Will try the Widcomm drivers as an alternative to BlueSoleil and see how they go…
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Tim ·
Did you find a soloution, other than the bin?
KathyReid ·
Hi Tim,
Unfortunately not. The Widcomm drivers didn’t work very well either, so I’ve basically decided not to use the Laser N1968 Bluetooth dongle - and write off the $17 that it cost me. It’s so frustrating though - one of the things that has helped the PC industry is interoperability and this is sadly lacking in the Bluetooth area..
Konrad ·
Hi Kathy. I also bought a cheap BT dongle that came with version 1.x of BlueSoleil. After some grief, I did manage to get it to work with my Jabra BT620s stereo headset which was the main reason I got it anyway.
Recently I discovered that the current version of BS (ironic isn’t it?) is 6.x. Today I downloaded version 6 and installed it. It works MUCH better than the early versions, and IVT admits on their website that they resell crappy old versions to dongle vendors to ship out with their product. If you want the current version without restrictions you have to buy it for a whopping $54 USD, as the old versions don’t entitle you to an upgrade. About what I’d expect from a French company.
tom ·
i have the laser ni968 the BlueSoleil software that came with it is crap
Nathaniel ·
I have exactly the same issues and was a bit surprised at the cost of version 6 - and that the adapter came with such an old version! I used OSX the other day and the bluetooth integration was exceptional, I wish Windows land would improve on this. Anyway, this (http://www.shootingsoftware.com/Widcomm.htm) worked for me, add an entry to a windows inf file and it’ll use the WinXP built in bluetooth stack. Much better integration and it works. Rather underwhelming this wasn’t automatic.
Clint ·
Yeah I bought 2 of them to connect a pair of PC’s , and WinXP fails to recognize them on both pc’s, even after installing the so called “drivers” on the disc ….pfffft :/
an5 ·
Hi…
i bought a cheap blutooth dongle and it came without the instalation CD but was supposed to work without any drivers..
it actually workd without drivers on other pc’s but not on mine which is a vista home basic
AngryConsumer ·
Sabrent/Bluesoleil a big fat joke, its not that your OS has a problem with the dongle, its the GUI bluesoleil included as the drivers. As soon as you install the Bluesoleil and reboot it goes to the BS update site and apparently they had Lic issues, anyhow it checks for updates, and automatic, it kills the BS program because of the lic issue.
So really what is required, you buy the dongle, then install the software/drivers it then kills itself, then go to Bluesoleil where they ignore you, then go to Sabrent and they start rambling about try this and this and that then tell you that the OS you have is compatible with the dongle, and that because the OS supports it that your flat out of luck and you need to call or take your comp to your OS manufacturer, or your computer to a tech for repairs. They will also tell you as does the read me file to check the do not auto update in the BS program options, but as soon as you reboot, bye bye anyhow. It checks and kills itself again.
I am to say the least, bitter about my purchase, BUT, not finished with the powers that be at Sabrent and bluesoleil which by the wat are one and the same…. to say that its getting ugly, is an understatement!
I refuse to purchase something that claims to be plug and play, and handed something that kills itself because they cant control the license of their own product. Its not like the Crack/Keygen community just popped up yesterday and the fact they cant keep their own software safe from exploitaion is not and should not be left as the fault of the consumer.
Suffuce it to say, Sabrent/BlueSoleil “have some splainin to do Lucy” i will not forgive or, fade away… onward through the fog!
Better late than never, the troubles still prevail in 2011
Scavinski ·
I just received my laser dongle with BS2.6.0.8 nothing works!!! installed the software click on it and it sits there and does nothing im running windows XP SP3. What a piece of crap!
P.S i tried to click on the widdcom link and I get a page that the US government has shut them down. I wish a hacker would get into the right system and launch their missiles up there own Asses and let the free world get on with operating in peace instead of trying to tell us what to do and how to do it. They are so stupid they cant even manage their own economy!!!!!!!