Usb Blutooth Adapter For Mac
I keep the dongle plugged into the back of my apple 27' monitor so that means it is only 1 to 2 feet away from the mouse. Don't plug it into the mac pro itself if that is at any distance from the mouse. The closer you can keep the dongle to the mouse the better. If all is lost, and you have xcode installed then you can do a.
Depending what model of the Mac Pro you have, it might already have bluetooth installed. Check for the bluetooth hardware in System Preferences. If it is not there, then you can always buy a usb bluetooth adapter.
Note that if you should sleep your machine, power is off the usb's, so the dongle is off. This means you cannot wake the machine with any BT devices like the mouse (I use a wired keyboard). Also sometimes upon waking the machine the mouse does not immediately re-pair (maybe 20% of the time). So you have to flip its switch to get the system's attention. Free to play fps games for mac on steam. While I do have internal BT, using the dongle disables the internal (at least for 2010 mac pro's).
And of course BT would go inactive if you pulled the dongle out! Just want to second the Kinivo adapter. I had been using the ioGear one mentioned, but for some reason it stopped working. I think it was when I upgraded from Snow Leopard. So I've been on a wired mouse for a while. I became interested in making Bluetooth work again when I got an iPad Pro and really wanted to use the continuity and airdrop features which use a combination of Bluetooth and WiFi. Glad I found the Kinivo.
Just plugged it into my keyboard, and the Magic Mouse paired and the iPad Pro works as desired. Incidentally, the reason I needed a USB dongle is because Apple's built in Bluetooth does not work properly in my office.
My late 2010 Mac Pro is in a place where there is interference. Here's an old thread detailing that issue: Hope this helps someone with this frustrating problem. I would like to 3rd the Kinivo adapter. Thanks to this forum/thread, I finally have a smoothly working magic mouse. And I'm happy as a clam:-) Now, to get the new dongle working properly, I had to open the case, disconnect the wire from the motherboard to the bluetooth card. Then, once the Pro was powered back up, I had to plug the magic mouse into a usb port with a lightning cable for the system to recognize the mouse on the new bluetooth radio (which is plugged into my wired (numeric) keyboard).
Once I had the mouse working, I could re-pair my magic trackpad also. Did I mention that I'm happy as a clam. Sooooo, nice. Many thanks to everyone. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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I'm using a Magic Mouse with my MacBook Pro and Mountain Lion. The cursor sometimes start to lag. I figured, the reason for this could be the distance between my Mac and the mouse (about 1.5 meters / 5 foot). I bought an external USB Bluetooth dongle I want to plug into my monitor on my desk, so the mouse is closer to the controller. However, I can't figure out how to make OS X use the external dongle instead of the built in controller.
When I go into System Prefs > Bluetooth and hold the Option key to display the reception, I see that it is the strongest when it's next to my Mac and not when it's next to the dongle. So what can I do to change that? I just went through this using this no-name adapter on OS X 10.10: The easiest way to use the USB adapter is to reboot. If you hold down the Option key while clicking on the Bluetooth menu icon, the MAC address of the adapter should be different. You can also verify in System Profiler. You'll know it's working if any existing pairings break. I've found that a BT 4.0 adapter is working better than the built-in adapter in my 2010-era Macbook Pro.
Especially with a headset, there's much better sound quality. The on / off button in System Preferences is a little buggy.
Turning off the adapter works fine, but clicking 'on' turned the internal adapter back on. I had to unplug the adapter, plug it back in, and then turn Bluetooth back on. If you want to work around this without rebooting, you can use Bluetooth Explorer from the OS X developer tools. You'll need a (free) developer account. There's a ton of useful tools to debug interference, pairing issues, and so on. This is now part of a package called 'Hardware IO Tools for Xcode V x.x' and can be found at. I've often had the exact same problem!