Mouse incompatible with router, geez...is that possible?

[Sunandsurf]

Problem with wireless mouse:
Cursor slows down to a crawl, i have to push and pull it a bunch of times just to get it to move across the monitor. Problem is intermittant. Sometimes it dies and stays dead for 10 or 15 minutes at a time before it unfreezes and acts like a normal cursor, zipping and flying around again at the speed of sound. In dysfunctional mode, when it slows waaaaaaaay down to a crawl, right clicking and left clicking when the situation calls for it does nothing, nada, zero! And yes, the batteries are fine.

What Logitech the manufacturer of the mouse says:
Logitech says I might need to place the router as far away as possible from the mouse. Does that sound right, or are they off their rocker? Right now I have the router placed behind the monitor, about two and a half feet away from the mouse. Logitech says the farther away the better, 10 feet and more if possible, it's all about keeping them seperated, so says Logitech.
Does it make sense that a router needs to be kept away from a wireless mouse in order for the mouse to work properly?

[thelastfreeman]

The wireless signals are probably interfering with each other. My laptop wifi is down for a few minutes when someone uses my 5.5GHz cordless phone.

[mountain_rage]

If the wireless signal from your mouse is the same frequency as your router than the two can interfere with each other. The same problem is true for phones and routers. The best solution in all this is to avoid buying wireless devices of the same frequency.

[1cooldude]

Problem with wireless mouse:
Cursor slows down to a crawl, i have to push and pull it a bunch of times just to get it to move across the monitor. Problem is intermittant. Sometimes it dies and stays dead for 10 or 15 minutes at a time before it unfreezes and acts like a normal cursor, zipping and flying around again at the speed of sound. In dysfunctional mode, when it slows waaaaaaaay down to a crawl, right clicking and left clicking when the situation calls for it does nothing, nada, zero! And yes, the batteries are fine.

What Logitech the manufacturer of the mouse says:
Logitech says I might need to place the router as far away as possible from the mouse. Does that sound right, or are they off their rocker? Right now I have the router placed behind the monitor, about two and a half feet away from the mouse. Logitech says the farther away the better, 10 feet and more if possible, it's all about keeping them seperated, so says Logitech.
Does it make sense that a router needs to be kept away from a wireless mouse in order for the mouse to work properly?


Yes, since the signal strength is inversely proportional as the square of the distance. if it's a new Logitech G7 mouse ( 2.4 GHz) then I would recommend the router be moved as far as possible.

[mountain_rage]

It helps lower the chance of interference the further away your mouse is from the router. But its not a guarantee that you won't get interference.