Wireless (radio) mice?

[Harry Bloomfield]

I currently have a wireless mouse, radio linked to a PC. The mouse came
with the PC and the radio receiver is built into the PC case, serving
both mouse and a keyboard.

The mouse is becoming a little worn and I would like to replace it, but
with one which would work with the built in radio receiver. Do these
things work to any kind of standard which would allow this?

Are all mice described as being 'wireless' radio linked rather than IR
linked - most ads do not seem to make this point clear?

 

[Mike Walsh]

Most (maybe all) current wireless devices operate on a low power unlicensed radio band, usually 27 Mhz or 2.4 Ghz. Your best chance of compatibility is to use bluetooth devices.

 

[Paul]

I currently have a wireless mouse, radio linked to a PC. The mouse came
with the PC and the radio receiver is built into the PC case, serving
both mouse and a keyboard.

The mouse is becoming a little worn and I would like to replace it, but
with one which would work with the built in radio receiver. Do these
things work to any kind of standard which would allow this?

Are all mice described as being 'wireless' radio linked rather than IR
linked - most ads do not seem to make this point clear?

Being the curious type, I'd either try Everest or Sisoftware Sandra, and
get a list of hardware in the PC. Or open the side of the PC and have a
look around, to see how the radio feature is implemented.

(Everest was formerly AIDA32, and this is the last free version. Newer
versions can be purchased from lavalys.com)

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

(Sandra Lite is free.)
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a=

The reason for doing this, would be to see if the radio is
described as Bluetooth, because that improves the odds you
could use a new product based on Bluetooth, with the PC
directly.

It is possible the radio device is connected to an internal USB header,
but I don't know that it is done that way for a fact. But perhaps using
a few utilities, will unearth a bit more information about what is inside
your PC.

USB devices can be examined with this utility.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070516...com/whdc/device/stream/vidcap/UVCViewdwn.mspx

Paul

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Mike Walsh wrote :

Most (maybe all) current wireless devices operate on a low power unlicensed
radio band, usually 27 Mhz or 2.4 Ghz. Your best chance of compatibility is
to use bluetooth devices.

Thanks to both, I was just trying to avoid yet another dongle on the
system.