dongle or adapter

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"wayne.kerr" <wayne.kerr@spammer.com> wrote in message
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>I need to purchase something which allows me to manage my bluetooth phone
>from my pc via the usb port and am a bit confused by the naming conventions
>of some items on retailers web sites. So please could someone explain the
>difference between an adapter and a dongle.
>
> tia, wayne

Same thing AFAIK

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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:21:07 +0000, wayne.kerr wrote:

> I need to purchase something which allows me to manage my bluetooth phone
> from my pc via the usb port and am a bit confused by the naming conventions
> of some items on retailers web sites. So please could someone explain the
> difference between an adapter and a dongle.

In this NG it means the same thing. However in computer terminology a
'dongle' is a....

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A dongle (pronounced DONG-uhl) is a mechanism for ensuring that only
authorized users can copy or use specific software applications,
especially very expensive programs. Common mechanisms include a hardware
key that plugs into a parallel or serial port on a computer and that a
software application accesses for verification before continuing to run;
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"Thomas K. Balthasar" <Thomas.Balthasar@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> With this specification you can say that a Bluetooth adapter is also a
> dongle cause of the dongle functionallity in cooperation with the driver
> (i.e. Widcomm). Or is this wrong?
>
> Thomas
That's stretching things a little bit ;-) but I suppose you're right. The
software WON'T work without the adapter, so that DOES make it a dongle of
sorts.
Nice to have a definitive answer!

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>> With this specification you can say that a Bluetooth adapter is also a
>> dongle cause of the dongle functionallity in cooperation with the driver
>> (i.e. Widcomm). Or is this wrong?
>
> So, a printer is also a dongle? And what about your monitor, mouse,
> keyboard? They all plug into your pc, and the drivers don't 'work' without
> those nifty devises plugged in ;-)

By your comment do you call a printer/ Mouse, Keyboard adaptors? Not
usually, the BT USB device can be called any name your wish, just most of us
prefer standard names we can identify.

Commonly the connected device is used as the name, but BT should be referred
to in the same manner as a network connection, since it acts in a similar
way.

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As others have posted, a "dongle" was originally a hardware device that
would usually plug into the parallel port of a PC and serve as physical
confirmation that a license had been purchased for the corresponding S/W
(the S/W would query for the presence of the dongle). Other than an
optional pass-through connection to the printer, it did not connect to
anything outside of the PC.

Since USB-based flash memories and wireless devices have a similar
form-factor (plug into a port, but no connections otherwise) they are often
referred to as dongles.

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"wayne.kerr" <wayne.kerr@spammer.com> wrote in message
news:41a24a41$0$109$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net...
>I need to purchase something which allows me to manage my bluetooth phone
>from my pc via the usb port and am a bit confused by the naming conventions
>of some items on retailers web sites. So please could someone explain the
>difference between an adapter and a dongle.
>
> tia, wayne
>