Hi. I'm wanting to buy the "ms wireless entertainment desktop
7000" (bluetooth) to replace the old ms keyboard elite bluetooth. The
old one is prone to interference and disconnects.

To make matters worse, I am running a first generation wireless N that
could only ever operate in G mode at 48 mb/s. Putting the old N
router in N mode would break any other bluetooth connection - and its
own.

Will the new generation wireless N routers run at N speed and get
along with microsoft's current bluetooth desktops? Thanks.

Nick Mirro wrote:
> Hi. I'm wanting to buy the "ms wireless entertainment desktop
> 7000" (bluetooth) to replace the old ms keyboard elite bluetooth. The
> old one is prone to interference and disconnects.
>
> To make matters worse, I am running a first generation wireless N that
> could only ever operate in G mode at 48 mb/s. Putting the old N
> router in N mode would break any other bluetooth connection - and its
> own.
>
> Will the new generation wireless N routers run at N speed and get
> along with microsoft's current bluetooth desktops? Thanks.
>

"Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspace"

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=906

HTH,
Paul

On Jul 11, 11:22*am, Paul <nos...@needed.com> wrote:
> Nick Mirro wrote:
> > Hi. *I'm wanting to buy the "ms wireless entertainment desktop
> > 7000" (bluetooth) to replace the old ms keyboard elite bluetooth. *The
> > old one is prone to interference and disconnects.
>
> > To make matters worse, I am running a first generation wireless N that
> > could only ever operate in G mode at 48 mb/s. *Putting the old N
> > router in N mode would break any other bluetooth connection - and its
> > own.
>
> > Will the new generation wireless N routers run at N speed and get
> > along with microsoft's current bluetooth desktops? *Thanks.
>
> "Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspace"
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=906
>
> HTH,
> * * * Paul

Thanks Paul. Thats an interesting article. It addresses my current
problems well. What I was hoping was that the new gen N wifi and
newer bluetooth mice/keyboards would work together.

Is there an alternative to bluetooth for keyboards/mice at 20 feet?

Nick Mirro wrote:
> On Jul 11, 11:22 am, Paul <nos...@needed.com> wrote:
>> Nick Mirro wrote:
>>> Hi. I'm wanting to buy the "ms wireless entertainment desktop
>>> 7000" (bluetooth) to replace the old ms keyboard elite bluetooth. The
>>> old one is prone to interference and disconnects.
>>> To make matters worse, I am running a first generation wireless N that
>>> could only ever operate in G mode at 48 mb/s. Putting the old N
>>> router in N mode would break any other bluetooth connection - and its
>>> own.
>>> Will the new generation wireless N routers run at N speed and get
>>> along with microsoft's current bluetooth desktops? Thanks.
>> "Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspace"
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=906
>>
>> HTH,
>> Paul
>
> Thanks Paul. Thats an interesting article. It addresses my current
> problems well. What I was hoping was that the new gen N wifi and
> newer bluetooth mice/keyboards would work together.
>
> Is there an alternative to bluetooth for keyboards/mice at 20 feet?

The Logitech EX110 quoted in that article, gets a 3 foot range
rating, in the first review here :-)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...gitech%20EX110

In looking through the Newegg reviews for some of the "2.4GHz wireless"
keyboards, some of them seem to get decent reviews. But it is hard
to tell from those reviews, exactly how complicated the owner's
RF spectrum is. If a person was living in an apartment building,
with tons of wireless users, the results could be quite different.
Some of the keyboards suffer from the usual communications dropouts,
or jittery performance.

There is a hint here, that Wifi N can run at 5GHz. Which again,
might improve the interference issue (but perhaps not the range).
I'd want confirmation from a source other than Wikipedia, that
this option is real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11n

Sometimes, it is innocent looking things in your household, that
upset things. One poster noted that every time the phone rings,
his Wifi dropped. And it turned out, one of his wireless phones
ran at 2.4GHz. So in some households, spectrum management is a
real problem. Too many gadgets.

Paul