Cordless Mice

[Orangemon1]

Anyone know if two identicle cordless mice can be within three feet of eaxh other and not infer with each other?

[Hippie_Tech]

The cordless mice (and keyboards) that I've seen will allow you to select between two different channels. You should be able to have two different wireless mice near each other as long as you use channel one for the first and channel two for the second.

[Gabriel]

Take a look of the spec b4 u buy the mice.
Different manufacturer use different freq.

[NooNoo]

My logitech desktop only has one channel - so I can't use another logitech within 40 feet of it

[flyboy747]

Somewhat off topic, but funny story:

Faculty member (actually a chair of one of the departments who has a wireless keyboard) called help desk a couple of weeks ago saying that he was typing something in Word, had stopped for a few minutes to read something, then looked back at the screen to see a letter to someone being typed on the screen as he watched. First thing we thought was a virus of some type. So someone went over there and it turned out that the person in the office on the other side of the wall from his office had an identical wireless keyboard and it had gotten locked onto the his receiver. This guy was all freaking out and everything. It was pretty funny.

[Gollo]

Originally posted by NooNoo
My logitech desktop only has one channel - so I can't use another logitech within 40 feet of it

Huh really? I have a wireless keyboard and mouse from logitech and my brother in laws computer is in the room right above mine and I have never experianced any problems with the two. Am I just lucky?

Here's a question on this topic: Could you have two (say logitech) mice connected to the same reciever? i.e. have a trackman marble wireless optical and a regular mouse

[King Grover]

I used to share an office with another guy and we both ahd cordless Logitechs. We basically sat back to back and never had a problem with the mice interfering.

[Matridom]

I have an intelimouse explorer wireless. The way i read things about it is; when you setup the mouse with an access point, there is an encryption key that is passed between. The base station will ignore any signals that are not designated by the mouse it's configured for.

- Press the botton on the access point, it opens up and will accept any signal

-press the button on the mouse (designated for this purpose) it sends it's info to the base station. The base station then "locks" onto the mouse serial number/encryption key. I've not tried two mice at the same time, but i don't see why it would not work.

[Joker1]

Originally posted by Matridom
I have an intelimouse explorer wireless. The way i read things about it is; when you setup the mouse with an access point, there is an encryption key that is passed between. The base station will ignore any signals that are not designated by the mouse it's configured for.

- Press the botton on the access point, it opens up and will accept any signal

-press the button on the mouse (designated for this purpose) it sends it's info to the base station. The base station then "locks" onto the mouse serial number/encryption key. I've not tried two mice at the same time, but i don't see why it would not work.

I researched this myself sometime back in relation to Logitech wireless keyboards, (I help organize a medium sized LAN party once a month and a lot of people have wireless Logitech keyboards), it turns out Logitech products use a similar type of setup, where the button on the base first needs to be pressed then the button on the keyboard, this locks the two on to one another. I've counted as many as 8 of these working together simultaneously without error and I happen to know for a fact that the range on these is huge, I'm in the attic and my keyboard will work from the basement (3 story house).

The problem arises when two sets are reset using the button within a very short time span, this causes all sorts of weirdness and cross talk.

If I remember correctly the Logitech websites suggests setting them up 1/2 hour apart.

[Orangemon1]

Thanks to all for the info