ASUS USB-BT500 Bluetooth 5.0 USB Adapter with Ultra Small Design, Backward Compatible with Bluetooth 2.1/3.x/4.x

I wanted to use my Xbox controller and wireless headphones with an older Intel system. The Asus Tuff motherboard did not provide wireless internet or Bluetooth and I wanted both. This inexpensive device fixed half of the problem, with a similar device fixing the wireless internet issue. It is very easy to install and the drivers are already built into windows 10. Once installed you add Bluetooth devices as you would if Bluetooth was installed on the motherboard. Once the device is added, as soon as it gets turned on, it is connected to Bluetooth. The drivers remember added devices from one boot to the next.

It's compatible with Win 11 and is pretty much plug and play. You do need to re-pair devices if you were using an old dongle before this. Work's great and gives me about 20 feet of range where I could only sit right at my desk with an old 4.0 bluetooth dongle before.

I have a b650 motherboard and it uses some Mediatek Bluetooth adapter. It drops connections on multiple controllers (xbox elite and ps5 dual sense) let alone suffering the drifting and delay. At first, I was wondering if it was the controllers' fault.I plugged this device in and downloaded the driver package from the website for windows 11. I disabled the Mediatek Bluetooth adapter and installed the driver. Suddenly, the issues went away.It's too early to say how long it will last, but I'm happy for now. Response time and connectivity are above expectations.

ASUS driver only up through windows 10. If using win11, must go through manual selection process to use the ASUS windows 10 driver. Default selection by win11 doesn't work-no bluetooth.Once you go through this manually, works.

Funciona justo como lo esperaba, lo he usado tanto para conectar controles para jugar en el pc, como para conectar el celular al computador. Muy recomendado.

Your bluetooth card isn't working? This will work well to get your earbuds or whatever working again. Happy wife, happy life!

Computer doesn't have Bluetooth, so this comes in handle when i need to connect a controller to my PC

While I'm not in the habit of writing reviews, I have to get it out there that I absolutely must warn people to not buy this dongle. It simply does not work. And if it does, it doesn't work on Windows 8. I bought this thinking the Asus brand would give some form of familiar reliability but I haven't gotten it here. Bought it for my Windows 8 desktop computer, the only computer I own that doesn't have built-in bluetooth. It wouldn't do a thing.- First I plugged it into my desktop into my Anker 9-port powered hub; the really nice bestselling hub that has *no* problems acting as a middleman as far as drivers and USB dongles go. The proprietary USB dongle that goes to my mouse works, as does the Logitech unifying receiver. The Bluetooth menu allegedly attempts to detect it, but it doesn't find anything. I'm trying to get it to find my Nintendo Switch controller, a bluetooth device with a great reputation for working flawlessly with PCs.- Next, rebooted and tried again. Still wouldn't find it.- Unplugged it and re-plugged it. Windows detects the dongle but it still doesn't do anything.- Looked on Amazon reviews for tech support, as many folks are wont to do when they get it working through a workaround. Some say you have to download the latest drivers off the Asus website to do it. Went to the Asus website, the Support page for the product is completely blank. Great start.- Tried another review that said to look for the Bluetooth Windows service and make sure it's on - sure enough it is.- Found the drivers on a separate Asus page. Downloaded them, installed them. Now the Bluetooth function seems to have disappeared from the computer somehow. Rebooted, tried again, Bluetooth service not working.- Then took the dongle out of the hub and plugged it into a root USB port on my computer. Windows detects it. Bluetooth enabled. Still doesn't do anything. Rebooted, tried again, still doesn't do anything.- Reinstalled the drivers from scratch after rebooting, then rebooted again, still doesn't work. Just for the heck of it, tried to see if the dongle would work after installing the drivers before rebooting. It doesn't.- Looked on Google to see what I could find in terms of support for this thing. Some people are saying it doesn't support Windows 8. Whether or not that's true I dunno, but it surely doesn't work on my computer and I'm running decent hardware.- The first one I bought costed $15, the other one I bought (after I thought I lost the first one and later found it) costed $12. I've bought a lot of hardware over the years that I've had a week's worth of problems sifting through garbage forums trying to find a fix for and come up with nothing, and I'm not going through that rigamarole again. I'm not gonna spend weeks waiting to hear back from Asus Support, and pay some huge amount to ship it to them if they even care. I don't even care if I happened to get a defective model; I have a higher chance of getting a working product by just getting a different dongle. It'd be more expensive to spend more than an hour troubleshooting this thing when I could just work one hour for minimum wage and get about the same money to buy something of equal value. I'll find a dongle that has decent drivers and decent support.