On 24 Aug 2004 at 14:30, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote about wireless > mouses: > > Do you have a wireless network? If so, the batteries > > run out much, much more quickly. And it doesn't even have to be > > *your* wireless network -- any WiFi network in the same area can > > interfere enough to cause problems. > > Really? I didn't know that wireless networks affected mouse battery > life. Can you explain why this is? I don't have a wireless network, > but I may in the future, and this would be good to know.
It's not that it does something to the battery, but it means the mouse transmits more often, apparently, and this constant retransmitting runs down the battery in ways that it does not when there's no WiFi network present. I'm not sure why there is interference, because they can't possibly be operating on the same radio spectrum, but that's what I now remember MS tech support telling one of my clients, that the wireless mouse could experience interference from WiFi that could lead to reduced battery life (it was an MS wireless optical mouse). I know it sounds kind of fishy, but it was a reasonable explanation of why my clients were having problems with battery life and other people don't seem to have as much. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
