3Com 3CRWB6096B Wireless Bluetooth PC Card

• PCMCIA Bluetooth card for your laptop
• Securely share files with other Bluetooth PCs, synchronize your handheld
• Connect to the LAN through a Bluetooth access point, dial up the network with a Bluetooth cell phone
• XJACK antenna pops out for clear reception, retracts for safety and convenience
• Bluetooth Connection Manager provides autodiscovery and simple management of devices, resources, and services

Pros:

Don't need to open the antenna to get reception...so it stays streamlined to the edge of your PC Card slot. That is the only positive of this card.

Cons:

the driver software is WAY outdated. Even the software on 3com's site doesn't help.

Doesn't pair well.

Class II card...bad range.

Go with a CLASS I type card. I purchased a Hawkings Tech Class 1 USB dongle. It is awesome. However I am now purchasing a Zoom Class I card which looks great and from what I heard might be the best.

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I purchased this card so that I could pair it with a page-turning pedal (the PageFlip Cicada pedal). Although the pedal comes with a USB Bluetooth dongle, I wanted something that would fit completely flush inside the PC and not "stick out" the way the dongle sticks out.

This didn't work: The pedal acts like a Bluetooth keyboard, but the 3Com connection software that comes with this card said that it could not find any "services" for the pedal and did not connect to it. It seems that this card was only intended for bluetooth networking, not connecting to bluetooth keyboards. The only options I ever saw in the software were related to making network connections to other bluetooth-enabled computers.

Too bad, because, form-factor-wise, this card was exactly what I needed it to be. Wish that there was a more versatile software package to go with it.