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I can connect anywhere in my two story home and even in most of the yard when outside.
Beware- if you are buying this to use with devices supporting the A2DP protocol (stereo headsets such as the Motorola S9-HD), it does NOT support this protocol. Even if you install the WIDCOMM / Broadcom driver stack, which should support A2DP, the dongle itself does not. Oddly, you can sometimes get A2DP-based headsets to work, but only at distances of a few inches.This is a well-documented problem if you search for "Broadcom 2045" (the chipset in this dongle) and "A2DP". Also, similar reviews of this specific dongle exist on other sites as well.
I bought this so that I could listen to music on my bluetooth headset. I only expected to be able to walk around the office while I worked, but to my surprise, I was able to walk almost around my whole house--a 4000 square-foot, two story house. This worked much better than I expected. I have not tried it with other applications yet, but this purpose, it was very easy to set up, and the quality was very good.
This adapter works fine to transfer files to Tracfone LG600g phone. Would work well with other devices too. Haven't tried for distance as I have it by tne main computer. The only speedbump is entering the password when pairing devices.
I hoped to use this on Skype with my older Macintosh and a bluetooth headset. Iogear's specifications indicate that you can use this product with Mac 10.3.9 and above and with headsets, **but** while you can use this product on a Mac and I suspect with headsets on a PC, you can't use this device to connect your headset to your Mac. After getting "your bluetooth hardware does not support headsets" in both OS 10.3.9 and 10.4.11, I searched the net and found out there's no fix for this situation. If you are running Tiger and have USB-2, your best bet, according to my net research, is a D-Link dongle which has a much more limited range and may have to have an Apple firmware updater applied.
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