XRP Hidden Inside USB 2.0 + Bluetooth Wireless Combo to PCMCIA PC Card CardBus Adapter Converter

This product functioned well for the purpose that I intended. I needed to put it into an old slate PC (A Toshiba Satellite R15) that I'm using as a sheet-music reader, so that the bluetooth page-turning pedal would work. The pedal (A PageFlip Cicada) is essentially a small bluetooth keyboard, where you press its two keys with your feet, to page forward and backward through a book of virtual sheet music as you are playing your instrument.Although the PageFlip Cicada pedal comes with its own USB bluetooth dongle, the dongle sticks out from the PC, and I accidentally broke it one night after a gig, by packing up the PC without removing the dongle. I vowed to find a way to get bluetooth into that computer which didn't run the same risk. Since the computer's only slot was a PCMCIA slot, this was the only way I could do it. I searched and searched, and found only two products on the market which were flush-mount PCMCIA bluetooth cards: (1) a 3Com 3CRWB6096B card, which I tried and which didn't work, and (2) this "hidden inside" bluetooth card, which worked well.*UPDATE*: I have now used the product in an actual gig, and it worked well. Also, I can say that extending the antenna is a requirement, even if the bluetooth pedal is close to the computer. Without extending the antenna, inputs from the pedal would sometimes be intermittent or delayed. After extending the antenna, all pedal inputs worked normally.Also, note that this product has a very bright blue LED that glows when the device is working. The LED is so bright that it would be distracting on stage. So I have covered it up with a small piece of black labeling tape, and it is now the LED brightness is not a problem.The product gets five stars for being the only existing solution I've found for getting bluetooth seamlessly into an old laptop so that it's flush with the casing. It would be nice if I didn't have to extend the antenna during use, but I'm OK with that for now.

The card was easy to install and works well in my Dell Latitude D630 running Windows 7 32Bit home premium. (I didn't use the supplied blue tooth software instead I let the windows 7 software set up.)The blue tooth portion has worked well in transferring several large files over roughly 10 feet and has had no problem linking up with the blue tooth of a cell phone.(The antenna was extended and raised for all blue tooth file transfers.)So far I've only used the PC card's USB port with a 4 Gbyte thumb drive and a small MP3 player/recorder both powered by the USB port with no trouble.The small telescoping Blue tooth antenna is delicate, but much appreciated, previous to getting this PC card I was using a small USB bluetooth dongle, that generated harmonics that interfered on occasion with my radio hobby.Keeping the delicate telescoping antenna collapsed until needed significantly reduces the radio interference as compared to the small external USB Bluetooth dongle it replaced. Note with the antenna collapsed the blue tooth range was less than 18 inches instead of the roughly 10 feet with it extended.(Tested via a cell phone.)The one oddity is the blue LED it is extremely BRIGHT to the point of matching or exceeding many of the small LED flash lights, I've received as gifts or purchased. For a product that is used almost exclusively in laptops this overly bright LED seems to be both a waste of power and an intrusive source of attention..

Have an older Dell C610 with a damaged USB port, this adapter works for awhile then causes a power surge on the bus that shuts it down. Do not know if this is laptop issue or a bad adapter.My Adaptec AUA-1420 USB-2 CardBus adapter with a BT dongle plugged into it works with no problem with this same computer so I'm thinking it is a bad card.......Ditto on the blue LED, it's so bright it has to be covered. probably contributes to the power surge problem.

Would work perfectly for a while and would then disconnect (time out). Nothing short of a reboot would get it to work again.Some reading suggested this is a problem only for XP computers.

Never was able to get the bluetooth to work no matter how hard I tried...

Could not get it to work in my Dell laptop. Then, I had a hard time getting it back out.

Everything went well except I haven't yet collected my parcel because it was taken to Mercury Lusaka instead of Mercury Kitwe,as I put on the address.The Lusaka people have delayed so much to forward my parcel to Kitwe despite phoning and asking them to do so.

haven't gotten it yet I need it to get the old laptop I have online. I assume that is what it will do. pick up wioreless signals.