Can you mix/match wireless keyboards and mouse?

  • Thread starter Thread starter me
  • Start date Start date
M

me

I bought a Logitech wireless keyboard

Now I would like to buy a wireless mouse to use in
conjunction with above keyboard

Will I be OK mixing wireless components like this......
or will they interfere with each other?
 
I bought this one

http://www.buy.com/prod/logitech-dinovo-keyboard-for-notebooks-us
b-piano-black/q/loc/101/209902036.html

But at a MUCH better price than what they want now

I bought it so as to use for future media PC for LCD TV
Click to expand...

I recently bought a $20 Microsoft wireless keyboard. Using speech
now, I hardly use the keyboard. It is smaller and half the weight of
my prior Logitech cordless keyboard (that helps, since I move the
keyboard around a lot). I have Logitech's MX Revolution mouse.
 
nobody > said:
(e-mail address removed) wrote:
Click to expand...

I usually do not worry about that.
If you stay with a Logitech wireless mouse that uses the same
type of communication, it should work just fine. Both the
keyboard and mouse can use the same controller.
Click to expand...
Logi uses the same controller for both single device packages
and combos
Click to expand...

I would like to see citations for those claims, preferably from
Logitech.
 
I bought a Logitech wireless keyboard

Now I would like to buy a wireless mouse to use in
conjunction with above keyboard

Will I be OK mixing wireless components like this......
or will they interfere with each other?
Click to expand...

Yes, you can mix and match components, as far as Windows is concerned
you'll be fine (and I wouldn't imagine Linux would have trouble with
multiple keyboards, multiple mice, or mix-matching)

In general the receivers won't talk to anything other then what they're
designed to talk to, most Logitech receivers won't even talk to other
Logitech products, but if you don't mind connecting up multiple
receivers if needed then it's not generally an issue.
 
I bought a Logitech wireless keyboard

Now I would like to buy a wireless mouse to use in
conjunction with above keyboard

Will I be OK mixing wireless components like this......
or will they interfere with each other?
Click to expand...

Not your case but I thought this might make interesting reading...

I once installed a slew of wireless Logitech mice/keyboards on the
teller counter of a new bank branch. Each unit was set up with its
unique ID so things worked fine.

But it took less than a week for some very bored tellers to start
pushing buttons. Soon, one tellers mouse and keyboard actions were
controlling the actions on adjacent machine which made for one heck of
an interesting problem.

So, can they be used? Absolutely. Just don't be in a bank branch!!!
 
John Doe said:
I recently bought a $20 Microsoft wireless keyboard. Using speech
now, I hardly use the keyboard. It is smaller and half the weight of
my prior Logitech cordless keyboard (that helps, since I move the
keyboard around a lot). I have Logitech's MX Revolution mouse.
Click to expand...

what do you mean abt using speech?
 
In message <[email protected]> bobmct
Not your case but I thought this might make interesting reading...

I once installed a slew of wireless Logitech mice/keyboards on the
teller counter of a new bank branch. Each unit was set up with its
unique ID so things worked fine.

But it took less than a week for some very bored tellers to start
pushing buttons. Soon, one tellers mouse and keyboard actions were
controlling the actions on adjacent machine which made for one heck of
an interesting problem.

So, can they be used? Absolutely. Just don't be in a bank branch!!!
Click to expand...

Part of me wants to have trouble imaging a bank dumb enough to deploy
wireless keyboards, not out worry over interference, but rather, there
are valid security concerns.

The rest of me lives in reality, where bank security is as much theatre
as the TSA.
 
DevilsPGD said:
In general the receivers won't talk to anything other then what they're
designed to talk to, most Logitech receivers won't even talk to other
Logitech products, but if you don't mind connecting up multiple
receivers if needed then it's not generally an issue.
Click to expand...

Hmmm...... now Logitech is coming out with a "unified"
receiver

"http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/349/6076&cl=us,en?WT.ac=mb|6170||hp&creative=16306|Unifying"

so now I'm really confused on if current equip can be
used with same USB dongle
 
Back
Top