John Doue wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I think Adrian meant, interference due to commercial stations and others.
>

Yeah, depends where you are - but here (London, UK) the FM band is a bit
crowded with broadcast stations, pirate (unlicensed) stations, ipod
transmitters and hash from badly screened high speed electronics.

I take on board the problems with 2.4GHz interference, that can have an
detrimental effect (in fact worse than FM if truely bad - bluetooth
stutters and cuts out) but when it works it's solid with both RX/TX ends
in the same room. I run a busy wifi network here without issues.

My solution doesn't dangle a dongle on a laptop for the OP as the
hardware is built in. CPU use is not much when you count how many cycles
are stolen out of a gigahertz or two.

To test this (but going the other way), the OP could make a simple test
if he has a mobile phone with bluetooth and stored MP3 files. Pair the
phone with the laptop, enable the 'Advanced Audio' service on the laptop
and set the phone playing back an MP3 through the link. The music should
playback through the mixer and speakers of the laptop.

Admittedly, my mention of Skype was a 'curved ball' thrown for advanced
use. Some of my machines have multiple sound 'cards' - Skype gets it's
own sound card for making calls (and the ringing bell!) while the other
sound card is in use with general windows audio applications.

--
Adrian C

me@privacy.net wrote:
> John Doue <notwobe******.com> wrote:
>
>> Bluetooth? great but not the way it often is implemented. When I
>> connect my 3G phone via bluetooth to my computer, almost often the OS
>> says "new device found" (even if this is the npth time I connect it) and
>> assigns a new port to the connection (without saying which one). Used to
>> drive me nuts, until I learnt to check the Modem Icon in Control Panel
>> and make sure the port attributed to the phone's modem was the one
>> assigned to the connection.
>
> Great
>
> I just bought a Bluetooth mouse for my laptop
>
> Should have gotten reg wireless mouse huh?

Don't know what a reg wireless mouse might be; I just said, bluetooth is
nice, but when you want to do something a little more elaborate than
connecting a mouse, it's problematic. Try it for yourself.

Personally, since my mouse in never far away than my machine, I trust an
USB mouth, especially since I can use it as soon as my machine boots:
convenient to chose the OS I want to boot, with System Commander.

To each one, its own.
--
John Doue

me@privacy.net wrote:
> Anyway to buy a set of small speakers and make them
> bluetooth capable so they could be used wirelessly with
> a BT enabled laptop?
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/ele/940882328.html

John Doue <notwobe******.com> wrote:

>Personally, since my mouse in never far away than my machine, I trust an
>USB mouth, especially since I can use it as soon as my machine boots:
>convenient to chose the OS I want to boot, with System Commander.

Good point I hadn't thought of

"tc" <terrycassidy@msn.com> wrote:

>I have a Bluetooth mouse for one laptop. The computer finds and connects to
>it automatically as soon as Bluetooth is running. They are no problem
>whatsoever except they won't work until the o/s is loaded.

Which brand/model BT mouse do you have above?

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> "tc" <terrycassidy@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a Bluetooth mouse for one laptop. The computer finds and connects
>>to
>>it automatically as soon as Bluetooth is running. They are no problem
>>whatsoever except they won't work until the o/s is loaded.
>
> Which brand/model BT mouse do you have above?

It is part of a Dell mouse/ keyboard/ dongle I acquired some time ago. The
keyboard and dongle are used with another desktop. The mouse is used with my
Toshiba laptop with a Toshiba BT SD card.

Terry