Notebook Audio

Some details:

I had trouble keeping it connected at first due to having a metered connection. I turned that off, and it seemed to stay connected.  However, there was no sound. Then it showed that it was connected in the bluetooth options, but in the sound controls, it showed that it was not. I restarted the service,  but nothing happened.

I had tried to make my pc show that it was an available device or available to see if that would help, but it didn't. earlier, i had done that, then turned that off, and the speaker was connected.

Does that option that broadcasts the notebook's name need to remain on? what do i need to do?

i currently have the service stopped since the laptop keeps looking for devices even when bluetooth is off (ever since pairing).  I don't want to do that, and i don't want to keep broadcasting my laptop over bluetooth. 

I am also over a public wifi network. Bluetooth does not seem to work without wifi on my laptop, why is that?

when i had a palm pilot, i could use bluetooth without wifi. on my phone, i can use it without wifi.

Please help me figure out whatever i am missing here. The laptop also sometimes won't let me change whether or not to show it to other devices in order to connect to bluetooth. i just want to connect to the speaker so i can play podcasts and listen to them in another room from itunes. 

i currently am using another thread to try and figure out how to update my bluetooth driver properly.

The speaker is a blackweb blox.