Apple mouse & keyboard with Belkin F8T001 rev 2 bluetooth USB adapter

[Stephen Jonke]

I just tested out the Apple wireless keyboard and mouse with my Belkin 
revision 2 F8T001 100 meter USB adapter. The short answer is that the 
keyboard works pretty nicely with the exception of not being able to 
wake the computer from sleep. The mouse, on the other hand, is more 
problematic. After the computer is woken from sleep the keyboard will 
reconnect after a few seconds - it doesn't lose any key-presses in the 
mean time - they are just delayed in showing up a few seconds. The 
mouse, however, only seems to reconnect when you click the mouse button 
and even then sometimes it doesn't reconnect for quite a while. So, you 
could use the keyboard with this Belkin adapter as long as you have 
some other means to wake the computer from sleep, but don't bother with 
the mouse. I find that the keyboard does work well in concert with my 
Kensington PocketMouse Pro Wireless which can wake from sleep.

Still, you're probably best off using either or both the Apple wireless 
keyboard and mouse only with the supported D-Link module or a Mac with 
built-in bluetooth. It turns out that Apple's recent firmware update 
for the D-Link and built-in bluetooth makes the devices incompatible 
with Windows machines, so it seems Apple is putting some special code 
in there specific to waking up Macs and thus it seems likely that the 
above mentioned issues will show up with any USB bluetooth module for 
which Apple has not provided a firmware update, and they have only made 
one for the D-Link.

Steve