Are all Bluetooth dongles invented equal?

dlockers · 15 Apr 2021 at 22:18

I seem to get much better range on my work laptop's inbuilt bluetooth versus my dongle on my desktop. Is there a "best" dongle to use in conjunction with wireless headphones?

Thanks

dlockers · 18 Jun 2021 at 20:51

Bumping this as I still haven't found something that gives me as good range as my built in bluetooth card in my laptop.

Are there any specific recommendations?

I took a look at the FiiOBTA but it is a bit more than I wanted to spend.

dlockers · 18 Jun 2021 at 21:21

no idea what said:
Laptop's Bluetooth will normally have a long antenna that goes around the screen which helps with the range, that's generally why.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tp-l...-6-bluetooth-5.0-pci-e-adapter-nw-222-tp.html

This is the one I was looking at. I expect the antennas are just for WiFi though?

Semple said:
What sort of range are you after? Also need to consider if it's travelling through walls then it'll decrease potential ranges.

It isn't anything nuts - my kitchen is a line-of-sight-no-walls 3m/4m max distance from the PC. It roughly gets there with a tiny mini USB Bluetooth dongle (TP Link) but it breaks up when I turn 180 degrees.

I'm tempted to just run a USB extension and "stick it" to back of my monitor with the mini USB adaptor in and see how I get on.

dlockers · 18 Jun 2021 at 21:31

Semple said:
Ah it should easily easily do 3/4m without dropping. My new Jabra headset can get upto 15ish meters through 2 walls and only suffers minor loss. My old Plantronics headset could easily do 50-100 meters through several walls, although quality was significantly lower than the Jabra so less bandwidth needed.

With the PCI-E device I linked?

What Jabra headset out of interest? My Plantronics headset (BB Pro2) mic sucks bad.

dlockers · 18 Jun 2021 at 21:56

Thanks chaps. I'll give the TP Link a go and see if it solves my immediate bother.

Then I'll get a Jabra Evolve 65 like @Semple has I think. Providing it has Bluetooth 5?

dlockers · 9 Jul 2021 at 12:49

Just a small bump on this. I upgraded the dongle to an ASUS BT 5.0 one. It made no difference (maybe even marginally worse). However I have now moved the device so it is more 'antenna' like placement on a USB extension... seems to have got me that extra foot or so that was frustrating me.