Creative CB3200 - Manual

1 INTRODUCTION About Your Creative Wireless Adapter CB3200/CB3700 Thank you for choosing the Creative Wireless Adapter CB3200/CB3700. Your USB adapter is easy to set up and supports wireless transfer rates of up to 3 Mbps*. Your USB adapter adds Bluetooth technology to your computer and can be paire...

5 Printer Cellular Telephone Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Unknown Devices Service icons for Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 Service icons are gray or yellow in color (or gray with yellow accents) in their “normal” state. When in the “connected” state, the primary color of the icon changes to green. Ser...

6 GETTING STARTED Installing Your USB Adapter Before you install your Creative Wireless Adapter CB3200/CB3700, take note of the Bluetooth Device Address (BDA) found on a label on your USB adapter. You need them later to verify your Bluetooth installation and pair your Bluetooth devices. DO NOT conne...

8 Finding services After discovering the devices you can have access to, you may perform Service Discovery. Each available device that you have discovered in the Bluetooth Neighborhood provides you with several services. To find out what these services are, simply do either of the following: ƒ Doubl...

9 Note: Not all Bluetooth devices provide all of these services. For instance, network gateways only displays the Network Access service to let you have access to the Local Area Network (LAN) connection. Setting up a connection Now that you know how to discover available devices and their services, ...

10 2. In the Folders panel, expand Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood, select a device, and then, in the right panel, right-click a service provided by that device and select “ Connect to … ” Determining a connection status The Bluetooth Connection Status dialog box displays information about the status ...

11 ƒ Notes To use Send to other Bluetooth device 1 In the application: 1.1 Windows Explorer – select one or more files to be transferred. Folders cannot be transferred. 1.2 Microsoft Office – only the document in the active window can be transferred. 1.3 Microsoft Outlook – select one or more items ...

12 CLIENT APPLICATIONS About Client and Server Before we start discussing about what each of the services does, let us briefly tell you a bit about Client and Server since we will be mentioning a lot of these two in this chapter. In order for two Bluetooth devices to exchange data, they must establi...

16 You can now open a Web browser and connect to the Internet as if the modem was attached to your computer. To close a Dial-up Networking connection: 1. On the Client , open My Bluetooth Places by double-clicking the icon on your desktop. 2. Select the device that is providing the Dial-up Networkin...

17 Types of File Transfer operations There are various types of file operations that you can perform. With My Bluetooth Places opened, right-click a folder and select an option from the pop-up menu. A dialog box appears, its title varies depending on the operation being carried out. In the dialog bo...

19 Note: Only Windows XP can install an imaging device; previous operating systems do not have native support for this option. Uninstall an Imaging Device 1. In Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood , right-click an installed Imaging device and then select Delete Camera from the shortcut menu. PIM Exchange ...

20 If Information Synchronization is used for the first time with a new application, it may take a few minutes to synchronize the database. This is how it works – it merges data from both devices, deletes duplicate entries, and then copies the updated database to both devices. Following the first at...

22 BLUETOOTH SERVICES Common Configuration Settings These properties can be set individually for each Bluetooth service: ƒ Service Name - the default name of each service can be changed. ƒ Secure Connection - requires that remote devices provide proof of identity and that all data be encrypted. ƒ St...

23 Service Access Notification Notifications lets you associate a sound (Windows *.wav file) and/or a visual indication with access attempts by remote devices. A different notification sound can be associated with each local Bluetooth service. Associate a Sound with Service Access From the Bluetooth...

24 Bluetooth Serial Port The Bluetooth Serial Port service enables a remote Bluetooth device to establish a wireless serial connection with this computer. The wireless serial connection may be used by applications as though a physical serial cable connected the devices. To establish a Bluetooth Seri...

25 ƒ Set the common configuration properties of the service, and then click OK . Fax Service The Fax service allows a remote Bluetooth device to send a Fax via a modem that is physically attached to this computer. Configure the Fax Service From the Notification area, at the far right of the taskbar,...

26 ƒ Public Folder on My Device - sends the selected file to the Public Folder on this computer. ƒ Rename - applies only to empty folders; file names and the names of folders that contain objects cannot be changed using this technique. ƒ Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Refresh, View & New - standard W...

27 Bluetooth icon in the Notification area, at the far right of the taskbar when an incoming call is detected. Click the balloon to acknowledge the notification, and then, in the Incoming Call dialog box, click the Accept button to accept the call. The audio signal from the phone is re-routed to the...

28 ƒ From the Local Services tab, select Network Access , and then click Properties . ƒ From the General tab, in the Select the type of service drop-down list, select Allow other devices to access the Internet/LAN via this computer , and then in the Connection Sharing section, select Configure Conne...

30 On subsequent appearances of this dialog box, the PIM selection option is not available. Change the Selected PIM On the PIM Item Transfer properties page, Received items section, there is a Business Cards shortcut menu. When a PIM was selected during initial setup the selected item in this menu w...

31 CONFIGURATION PANEL The Bluetooth Configuration Panel provides access to various settings including Bluetooth services, hardware, security, and events notification. In this chapter, we will thoroughly discuss each of the tabs in the Configuration Panel. There are two ways to open the Bluetooth Co...

32 accessed. To chose a notification sound that will play when a remote device attempts to access a service that requires a secure connection, click Select audio file.. and select the sound (*.wav) file to be played. Limited access to this computer to specific remote devices: You can limit access to...

34 2. Click the Discovery tab. 3. Select Report all Bluetooth devices . The specifically (and previously) selected devices will be discovered along with all other devices. Notes: To re-enable specific device discovery, re- select Report only selected Bluetooth devices . When all devices are deleted,...

35 For Notification: ƒ Notifications : provides visual and/or audio notification that a remote device is attempting to connect (or has connected) to a service on this computer. There are three types of notification: ƒ Authentication request, also called a PIN code request: This notification appears ...

38 − Empty field – the service is not connected. − A device name and Bluetooth Device Address – identifies the device that is using the service. At times you need to interrupt a connection from the server side. To do this, right-click the local service and then select Stop from the pop-up menu. To r...

39 SECURITY Introduction Each service that the server provides can be configured to require the Secure Connection setting, that means of, ƒ Authorization: the server operator must acknowledge all connection attempts before a connection is established. ƒ Authentication: the server requires a Personal...

42 PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS Bluetooth Operation ƒ Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR compliance ƒ Bluetooth 2.4GHz CB3700 - Class 1 radio, up to radius of 100 meters (328 feet)* Bluetooth 2.4GHz CB3200 - Class 2 radio, up to radius of 10 meters (32.8 feet)* Tx Power ƒ CB3700 - Class 1 - 20 dBm max with power contro...

43 TROUBLESHOOTING Q: What is a Bluetooth Device Address (BDA) and where can I find it? Can I change the BDA? A: Every Bluetooth device has a unique 48-bit Bluetooth Device Address, or BDA. This address cannot be changed by the end-user. A device’s BDA is usually displayed in hexadecimal format, for...

44 Q: How do I determine the Bluetooth Device Address (BDA) of my hardware device and the version number of both the Bluetooth Specification and the Link Manager Protocol (LMP)? A: Open the Bluetooth Configuration Panel and click the Hardware tab. In the Device Address section, locate the BDA of the...