SaGeUvAgOnY
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- Aug 14, 2010
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Hiya! I have purchased 3 Bluetooth dongles in the past with no problems. They are high end dongles that each have their own unique MAC address, and are the same brand and model.
Last month I decided to buy a bunch of dongles from eBay. I bought 20 to be exact. They were a dollar a piece and free shipping from Hong Kong. Yea, I knew to at least expect garbage for that price, but it wasn't a lot of money so I figure I'd take the gamble.They are generic dime sized dongles. I wasn't too worried if they would of be horrible quality due to their price. Just ONE of my high end dongles costs MORE than 20 of these cheap ones combined.
However, I don't like putting all of my eggs in one basket, so I decided to buy a total of 20 dongles between 3 sellers just in case one seller had bad dongles, especially since they come from Hong Kong and takes 3 weeks for delivery.
I tested each and every one of them on my 1st laptop with my phone. Out of 20, only 1 ended up being bad. Not bad at all. They work wonderfully. Wireless range is about half to 3/4 of the high end dongles so that's not too bad. Well I have lots of PCs and laptops in my house. I decided to install the dongles all at once after testing each one, and something weird was happening. My blackberry was getting confused as to what device to connect to. The device names were all mixed up, I'd have connection failures, etc.
I decided to take a look at the MAC addresses of each device and noticed that they are all the same! Well actually, each sellers dongle had its own MAC address. Each seller's dongle were a little different from eachother. In other words, I have a total of 3 different mac addresses because each seller had their own generic brand/model of dongle. I am glad I decided to split my purchases between different sellers or else I would have ended up with 20 dongles with the exact same MAC address, which causes all sorts of crazy problems due to conflicts. The dongles work great on their own, but when trying to use 2 of the dongles from the same seller together, it doesn't work due to the same MAC address.
Is there any way to change a MAC address on these Bluetooth dongles/adapters?
Last month I decided to buy a bunch of dongles from eBay. I bought 20 to be exact. They were a dollar a piece and free shipping from Hong Kong. Yea, I knew to at least expect garbage for that price, but it wasn't a lot of money so I figure I'd take the gamble.They are generic dime sized dongles. I wasn't too worried if they would of be horrible quality due to their price. Just ONE of my high end dongles costs MORE than 20 of these cheap ones combined.
However, I don't like putting all of my eggs in one basket, so I decided to buy a total of 20 dongles between 3 sellers just in case one seller had bad dongles, especially since they come from Hong Kong and takes 3 weeks for delivery.
I tested each and every one of them on my 1st laptop with my phone. Out of 20, only 1 ended up being bad. Not bad at all. They work wonderfully. Wireless range is about half to 3/4 of the high end dongles so that's not too bad. Well I have lots of PCs and laptops in my house. I decided to install the dongles all at once after testing each one, and something weird was happening. My blackberry was getting confused as to what device to connect to. The device names were all mixed up, I'd have connection failures, etc.
I decided to take a look at the MAC addresses of each device and noticed that they are all the same! Well actually, each sellers dongle had its own MAC address. Each seller's dongle were a little different from eachother. In other words, I have a total of 3 different mac addresses because each seller had their own generic brand/model of dongle. I am glad I decided to split my purchases between different sellers or else I would have ended up with 20 dongles with the exact same MAC address, which causes all sorts of crazy problems due to conflicts. The dongles work great on their own, but when trying to use 2 of the dongles from the same seller together, it doesn't work due to the same MAC address.
Is there any way to change a MAC address on these Bluetooth dongles/adapters?