How can I connect an nRF52840 with a computer over Bluetooth 5?

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My project goal is the following: To get data over USB and sending it to a computer using Bluetooth 5. 
 I've been looking around for a Bluetooth 5 dongle, but have not found one yet. Are there any, or what other options are there to provide a computer with Bluetooth 5? 
 
 Edit: To add to this, if there is no pre-made option to provide Bluetooth 5, would I need another nRF52840 DK and use this as a dongle?

Hung Bui · Accepted Answer

Hi Kevin,

nRF52832 does support 2Mbps. The only thing missing is long range. If you want long range you would need to use nRF52840. 
 You are correct that nRF52Dongle is not available yet. But we will have new dongle running on nRF52840 released in a few weeks. 
 
 For your requirements, I would suggest to use our nRF52840 DK to connect to the PC via USB, and use pc-ble-driver we provide here to communicate with external nRF52 boards. It's the easiest way to utilize all new features on Bluetooth 5.0 
 The default BLE driver on PC usually a little bit slow to be updated with latest Bluetooth 5.0 features.

How can I connect an nRF52840 with a computer over Bluetooth 5?

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