Posted on 01/09/2012 5:20:38 PM PST by MeganC
Techy Freepers, I need to buy a wireless keyboard and mouse that can operate up to thirty feet away from the computer. It's for a big meeting room with a projector. The Microsoft stuff I have right now is useless at about ten feet away from the computer. If anyone has a suggestion I'd deeply appreciate your help!
Go here. I just switched to these guys products.
http://www.pcgearhead.com/wireless-desktop-all.php?PrdID=1171
Truly no cables to lard up your desk or get hung up on.
Have a Touch Screen HP, HP wireless mouse and HP keyboard that came with it, year old.
SMK-Link and IOGear are the more reliable, the SMK-Link combos can cost upwards of $200, but I’ve never seen one fail, advertised as 100foot radius line of sight. Rii makes a cool mini keyboard with trackpad, never used the 2.4 Ghz but have used the RF model with a Blackberry.
Look for “2.4 GHz wireless connection” , that is generally advertised as 100ft line of sight.
The stuff advertised as 30ft line of sight usually only works reliably up to 15ft line of sight, as you’ve found out.
Using Logitech typing these very words, which I got on sale at Best Buy for $24. Outstanding battery life. Wireless keyboards eat batteries for lunch.
I second Leroy, the SMK-Link Gyration Air Mouse and Keyboard combo. DIdn’t know the name of the product in my prior post.
It’s pretty cool, the mouse uses 2D (and sorta 3D) hand gestures as macros. Flick wrist right, Powerpoint moves slide forward, etc.
...’course all of them wireless devices cause brain cancer, but that’s something that happens years ahead.
Logitech is about to release the “cube” an $80 reinventing of the “mouse” for presentations. look it up on tech sites or private mail me and I’ll find the few pre-reviews I’ve seen. You’ll need to re think how to use a “mouse” but it looks promising. Any RF or bluetooth keyboard should work, do you want size, portability, survivability. I have an old bt keyboard for a blackbery that works great for a computer. thus the issue is, do the keys need to be back lit ect.
I have the Microsoft Keyboard 3000 with mouse
I have had it for about 6 months now no issues. When I purchased it it was 30 bucks(They have since raised the price on amazon) but check around, prices fluctuate week by week
Thank you everyone for your responses! (-:
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