Cordless Mice

[WPKenny]

The computer fair returned to town today after a few months of absence so I did a bit of shopping.

I picked up some CD's for Lou and some 80mm fan grills to protect my lil digits. I also got myself a cordless optical mouse. One of these from Memorex and it only cost me 15 quid.

I've not been using it long but it's a little different from my failing MS Optical.

The thing I was wondering was what's the range on these things meant to be, I mean on cordless mice in general. It seems to only have a range of about a metre. Which is perfectly fine when you're sat at your desk with it but, my PC's in the lounge, and I was hoping to use the mouse sat on my sofa so I could fart about with the pc usjng the TV i.e. for playing movies or loading games (that I would use a joypad for).

What sort of range do the more expensive mice tend to have?

 

[(Shovel)]

MY MX700 will give me 3-4 meters I think. The only time I ever take it away from the PC is to use it as a remote control for DVDs - which is handy

 

[Teh Krypt]

The mouse and keyboard I got free from my work experience seem to work from my dads bedroom

*Is wanting to setup wireless mouse on dads pc and fuck about*

would say aboiut 6 meter, aint tried any thurther

 

[(Shovel)]

From a purely theoretical point of view, the further away from the reciever you get the more lag you'll have, and not knowing anything of Memorex wireless reputation (not likely a good thing) I don't know how acurate it will be as it is.

To be honest, I don't think that range increases much with more expensive models. The main demand is for the accuracy of the mouse, and - to the best of my knowledge and experience - that is what you pay for.

 

[WPKenny]

It seems to have different ranges at different times. I can seemingly use it on the sofa but if I move it further out of range it is then jerky when I bring it back to where it was working before and I need to put it back on the desk within about a half metre range before it functions smoothly.

So it kind of works at range, and kind of doesn't. heh.

 

[smurkin]

there is a company that makes a gyroscopic mouse..you dont have to use it on a surface ( its not a mouse I hear you cry....its a bat ....well.... )....probably shit for games but great on the sofa ... uuurmmm here

 

[Xavier]

Yeah, I've got one of those, the 'gyration ultra' - about 100m on the presenter model. 25m on the consumer.