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[Closed] Too many bluetooth devices connected at once?

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I've got a keyboard, mouse and speaker all connected by BT to my mac mini.
Occasionally the mouse becomes quite laggy if music is being played through the speaker.
Is there anything I can do - manually select channels etc. to try and improve things?

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Posted : 23/02/2015 10:35 am
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Bluetooth mice are notoriously pish. Throw it in the bin and get one that isn't BT. The Logitech ones with the 'nano' USB receiver are good.


 
Posted : 23/02/2015 10:35 am
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But I love my BT mouse and it was fine before I added the BT speaker - I suspect I know what the answer here is 👿


 
Posted : 23/02/2015 10:39 am
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Cougar seconded.

Never seen the appeal of a bluetooth mouse or keyboard at a desk, apart from some slight aesthetics. As someone who sits at a PC all day I always used wired stuff.

But yeah, you probably have too much stuff. Streaming audio on bluetooth will eat a fair bit of the available bandwidth. If you can manually select channels (and I'm not sure if you can) that [i]might[/i] help (or make it worse) but ultimately they will still all be fighting for access to the same RF chip so there is still a bottleneck.


 
Posted : 23/02/2015 10:40 am
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I suspect I know what the answer here is

"Pick one."

Never seen the appeal of a bluetooth mouse or keyboard at a desk, apart from some slight aesthetics. As someone who sits at a PC all day I always used wired stuff.

Keyboard not so much cos they rarely move, but tailed mice irritate the proverbial out of me. YMMV.


 
Posted : 23/02/2015 10:49 am