i was looking at wireless mouses at staples and didn't pick one up because it looks like i have to plug something into the usb port to use it. my sony vaio is older and i only have one usb in the front.....unless it can hook up to the rear where the other mouse hooks up now? any suggestions.....am i wrong? thanks.

jim

 

Just a question....would that be "wireless mice" you were looking for?

 

Every one I have ever seen plug into a USB port. I don't know if you can us a USB to PS2 adapter and it still work. Might take your laptop with you and see if they will let you try it.

 

 

I bought a microsoft wireless optical mouse, Im not sure if it was the wireless part or the optical part, but it seemed to be slow to respond, and had trouble "waking" up the computer.... I ended up throwing it in my drawer b.c i didnt like it. Back to my good old fashion ball mouse. I think i might go to a wired optical at somepoint later.

and then my roomate bought the same kind of mouse i had, and he hasnt had problems with it, so i dunno

Oh but yah it came with the adapter in the package

 

what is that? is that for where the old mouse plugs in to make it usb? some posts say useless without pics, some need explanations! LOL
LT, i send the mice your way! LOL

ps, it is not a laptop....old school desktop.

 

Haha, sorry man.
The round end is your typical old school PS2 mouse, the rectangle end is where the USB mouse plugs in to allow you to connect the USB mouse to the "regular" (PS2) mouse port and keep that one USB port you said you have free.


That run on sentence probably didn't help explain did it?

 

That's OK....maybe next Christmas.

 

I have a PS2 one that works wirelessly, but it is a ball mouse.

The USB adapter is by far your best bet

 

You should consider a USB port expander. This will give you more then one port to plug USB devices into. As far as I know, there is no other way to have a wireless mouse connect. (othere than maybe the PS2 port above!)

Worth a try.

 

in between wrapping a few presents, just for s*its and giggles i took off the ball on the mouse and noticed some lint and stuff stuck on the small wheels inside where the ball hits them.....cleaned up nicely, now smooth as glass again....! LOL saved 30 bucks for some mod money for the truck or bike! LOL
merry christmas everyone in case i don't get back on for a few days!

 

I constanly had to do that with the roller ball on mine. It was a PIA. Finally got an optical mouse. Works great.

 

wireless ... da best way to go. Will never go back to a roller ball mouse .

 

I'll always have optical from now on, no way I'd hassle with a ball mouse again for more than a few hours till I could get to the store to replace if something happens to my optical.... I am thinking about going wireless optical mouse and wireless keyboard....

That adapter should work or as mention a USB hub, you can get a 4 port hub for like $5 at wal mart and it takes your one port and makes it 4.... I theory I believe you can have a string of like 1000 USB Percival's on the same port. It's some crazy number like that.

 

USB works on a 8 bit addressing scheme, allowing only 127 devices on one port... like it matters keeping in mind that they all share the same "480 Mbps"... assuming you can ever actually get that kind of bandwith. Since USB is a powered port, I wonder if you would have to get a powered hub (external from computer) to run a wireless xmitter, plus other stuff off of one physical port. Also, I've seen wireless mice get lag when running through a hub.