Of Mice and... Mice
Nov. 30th, 2006 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowSome months ago, I bought a wireless mouse. At first, the added convenience was a great pleasure. But then...
For the last month or more, its performance has been extremely erratic. On the one hand, clicks often fail to register. (:click: :click: :click-click: :click, goddamnit!: :CLICK:) On the other, there are frequent phantom clicks, making (for instance) playing FreeCell an exercise in frustration. (No, I didn't want that card put in the upper left stacks. Put it back. No! STOP THAT!)
I'm on the verge of giving up and going back to a traditional mouse. One last try, though: does anyone know of a brand of wireless mouse that isn't prone to this type of behavior? (No, it's not battery trouble. I just changed the batteries a couple of days ago, but the problem persists.) This worthless lump is a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0.
For the last month or more, its performance has been extremely erratic. On the one hand, clicks often fail to register. (:click: :click: :click-click: :click, goddamnit!: :CLICK:) On the other, there are frequent phantom clicks, making (for instance) playing FreeCell an exercise in frustration. (No, I didn't want that card put in the upper left stacks. Put it back. No! STOP THAT!)
I'm on the verge of giving up and going back to a traditional mouse. One last try, though: does anyone know of a brand of wireless mouse that isn't prone to this type of behavior? (No, it's not battery trouble. I just changed the batteries a couple of days ago, but the problem persists.) This worthless lump is a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0.
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WOnkY peRformancE
Date: 2006-11-30 11:36 pm (UTC)Please forgive me belaboring the obvious. But when you "changed" the batteries, did you open a new package?
In my cheap RealDigital (tm) equipment, a new battery provides good performance. A month or so old but still "good" battery -- according to the little tester on the side of the more expensive packages -- is not good enough. The whole system is apparently highly voltage sensitive.
The alternative I've tried and that does work is switching over to a USB keyboard and mouse that in turn plug into a, powered, 4-slot USB expander that in turn is at the end of a 6 foot cable plugging into the PC. That gives me not only a longer run between the PC and the keyboard tray but some more convenient USB access. However, the USB mouse doesn't have a scroll wheel while the cordless mouse does and so I've switched back.