TRENDnet's TBW-103UB WiFi and Bluetooth dongle

For those of you with old school laptops jonesing to get your wireless-on, TRENDnet's TBW-103UB contains a double-dose of wireless goodness for you. The flash drive-sized dongle sports both 802.11g and Bluetooth adapters, so you can get online anywhere, via a WiFi hotspot or a DUN connection to a cellphone. Contains an adjustable antenna for those annoying deadspots, and features a three-year warranty for pretending it's broken when you want to step up to mobile WiMax. The double-duty dongle is available immediately for around $70.

[Bob @ Jan 24th 2006 9:29PM]

Cool stuff. I liked bluetooth ever since it came out. But honestly its always been buggy for me at best and there were times when it flat out refused to work.

[Nathan @ Jan 24th 2006 9:54PM]

This is awesome. I look at it as a great deal being two-in-one.

[Reytacular @ Jan 24th 2006 9:57PM]

ONe simple question:

Is it Macintosh compatible???

[Kinetic @ Jan 24th 2006 10:05PM]

One more thing to be added: flash memory. Bluetooth + 802.11g + 2gb = best usb device ever invented since 16mb thumbdrive, killer for freqeunt switchers of laptop/desktop

[Zeke @ Jan 24th 2006 11:25PM]

Trendnet makes some pretty good stuff. I have the TEW-424UB v2 802.11G USB dongle and it works great I picked it up online for $15 after $10 rebate.
(WinXP Pro)

[debain12yrold @ Jan 25th 2006 1:42AM]

If it is compatible with Linux (Debain in particular...) i'd be all over it! (BTW, if they could add 2GB of flash memory and still keep it at the same price, you would be able to buy a REAL 8GB nano for $200!)

[PEZ @ Jan 25th 2006 6:17AM]

Since you say its capacle of connecting to a cellpohne via BT for DUN accesss.. why not list the cost of using your BT phone as a DUN modem?

Its expensive, unless of course you are on T-Mobile.

[pud-box 360 @ Jan 25th 2006 8:20AM]

hehe ... he said dongle ...

[Quispus @ Jan 25th 2006 12:48PM]

Looks like it's just 2000 and XP. No Mac. :(

[dingo @ Jan 25th 2006 3:53PM]

This looks uncannily like a rebranded version of Suncore's BlueWiFly device. I can confirm that both bluetooth and wifi functions of the bluewifly work perfectly under Linux.

[Sam @ Feb 7th 2006 8:23PM]

It's Macintosh compatible.

[muertochongo @ Aug 26th 2006 3:44AM]

The WIFI Works good in Ubuntu 6.06, haven't tried BT yet.

[muertochongo @ Aug 26th 2006 3:45AM]

http://www.trendnet.com/support/os_compatibility.htm
tells you all the compat questions.
Cmon guys it wasn't that hard. It was on their site.

[Erik Von Halle @ Feb 27th 2007 12:03AM]

What do you have to have as a driver to run it on a Macintosh?