I read on the FAQ that the lag that the Arduino gets is due to the bluetooth's interference. When I turn off Bluesoleil, my lag does in fact disappear. However, the problem for me is that I need Bluesoleil so I can pair my bluesmirf on the arduino with the computer. I don't have a breakout board, so this poses as a big problem for me testing my programs. Is there someway for me to bypass this? Otherwise, I hope an addition to fix this problem will be in the future.
Any thoughts?
Late reply. But in case someone else stumbles into this.
Replace your rxtx.dll file in the Arduino folder with the non-defective version.
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1237179908
running version 0021 of the Arduino IDE on an eMachines EM-350 netbook (XP home, SP3) that DOES NOT HAVE BLUETOOTH INSTALLED, this does not fix the problem. the IDE takes around 60 seconds to start up and produces a'Launch4j' error popup (though does continue to run thereafter).
the obvious solution would be for the developers to have a user option to DISABLE the automatic detection of comm ports, allowing the user to just select the port by name. windows does not (and never has) play nicely when trying to deal with comm ports that are not there.
cheers,
rob 