About Blue tooth
Blue tooth is the accepted technology that cuts the wires between your cell phone / PDA/ computer and its accessories. Its cheap and reliable. As based on radio waves, it easily passes through any obstacles such as walls and operates everywhere is the specified circle.
About USB Blue tooth Adapters
Normally computers/laptops dont come with blue tooth port. Blue tooth usb adapters make your computer a blue tooth device thus it could enter into the world of blue tooth. There are lot of brands providing usb blue tooth adapters/dongles in the market. I've selected Belkin as its a famous brand, anyhow almost all of them provide the same functionality. Features such as range and capabilities of utility softwares can be considered in selecting a better one.
Features
Belkin blue tooth usb adapter has a speicified 10m radius circle range
(most of adapters provide that range) and it is based on blue tooth v1.1
compliant. The dongle is compact and light weight so that it could also be
recommended for portable use. The utility software provides all the possible
opportunities to use it like network neighborhood, serial port, obex file
transfer, autdio gateway, dialup networking wizard etc.
Conclusion
Usb blue tooth adapters are not that much recommended for setting up a wireless
network as it wont provide a very high speed rate. Currently the newer
technologies of wireless LAN are more popular and implementable. Usb blue tooth
adapters are highly recommended to connect with devices such as cell phones,
PDAs and smartphones.