Rocketfish Multimedia Bluetooth Keyboard and Laser Mouse - Review
Go Wireless With Ease
I was also glad to get rid of the wired mouse, which I had to buy an expensive USB cord in order get it to work. By the way, the mouse cord liked to get snagged too, so I would often have to pick the mouse up off the floor. Thank God it was durable.
So you can imagine my joy once I finally got my hands on the Rocketfish Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Multimedia pack. At last, free from those darn burdensome wires! It was like removing my shoes after a hard day of work.
Of course, being a new disciple of Bluetooth, I knew it was not going to be easy to set up. I've been fiddling with electronic products long enough to know that very few things ever just plug in and work right away. However, I was amazed at how quickly it did set up.
All I needed to do was insert the included CD Rom, as well as the included batteries into the Keyboard and Mouse. After a lengthy setup, I plugged in the Bluetooth key adapter. From there, a window appeared that seemed to be looking for the mouse and keyboard. At first it couldn't find them, and I read the instruction booklet to make certain I did it right. As it was, there was a button on both the mouse and keyboard labeled "connect" that had to be pushed in at the right time. I believe it took several pushings of this little button before the computer recognized it, but it did work.
From there, it prompted you to click the mouse, and the arrow appeared. You then had to type in a few numbers to test the wireless keyboard, and it worked! The keyboard and mouse looked very sexy on my drawer thingy, and I like the general look of it.
I also like the multimedia keys, whose pause, rewind, fast forward, volume control and other functions made it great for DVDs. It should be warned that you have to have the window selected for these multimedia keys to work. The mouse also had some multimedia functions, but the fast forward and rewind keys weren't compatible with my DVD playing window. Also, the mouse was a "sideways scroller", but I have yet to find a program where I've seen it work.
Speaking of incompatibility, there was a time when the Rocketfish Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard just up and didn't work. I was told that sometimes Bluetooth items often go out of sync, and I suppose that happened to me. The only thing that I can possibly account for its going out of sync was I plugged an MP4 Player into a USB port close to the Bluetooth adapter key. It took me an hour to figure out how to reset it, but only because I was impatient about how long I wanted the keyboard to sync up.
Still, it hasn't failed me since I've got it hooked up right. I think it will be okay now. If you don't have one of these, I highly recommend one. They can be purchased at Best Buy for about $100 from one of this article's attached links.
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11 Comments
Post a CommentI have had problems with the keyboard and mouse since I purchased it. The mouse would be unresponsive for seconds and then it would work. Then it would get sluggish for a while. The Keyboard would disconnect and then I would have to reconnect by switching the USB connector around. The Rocketfish site is poor at support so don't bother. I looked at the XP drivers and they were Broadcom 2006. Three year old drivers are to old to be on a new keyboard. I found that I needed a GBU221 driver set for my combination.
Hey my keyboard and mouse is a Rocketfish BTMSE2 on the mouse and a -BTKB2 on the keyboard. I found a site with a google search
www.iogear.com/support/dm/driver/GBU221
I thought that it couldn't make things worse installing iogear software so I downloaded the free driver and installed it. I am completely happy now with my Rocketfish combo. After the install my drivers are updated to 2008. The keyboard still hybernates to save batteries. I hope this helps the rest of you.
This product works well, but it won't last a long time. After a year of use, the mouse is coming apart, and all they keys on the keyboard have faded away. It's out of warranty so I'll have to buy something else instead. Not recommended if you want something that lasts more than a year.
I bought Rocketfish keybouard and mouse. Keyboard works well, but mouse doesn't work well. All buttons of mouse working properly but when I move the mouse cursor doen't move on my monitor. Probably the laser burn out, because when I direct the red light to the hole in the button of the mouse, the cursor moves. Please tell me what type of laser detail utilize inside of mouse?
the problem i have is how fast my keyboard and mouse go through batteries! i change the batteries like every week, which therefore is the reason i hate wireless objects.....you can use them for a bit and it may seem like you are saving loads!.....but really you are just blowing more cash into buying the batteries. one more problem i have with bluetooth is that at about half battery your keyboard/mouse will start to lose connection from the usb and then reconnect after a short ammount of time...i dont have the time to wait...so folks if your having trouble with your cord being too short or whatever trust me if you have the luck i do...you might just want to stick with that corded mouse/keyboard.
Usually in a review you tell how the products works. We all know getting rid of the cords are great, but does it effect how responsive the mouse is, and how the keyboard works? I agree with Tony that this keyboard lacks programmable hotkeys, I have no use for computer search, outlook - why shouldn't I be able to program it to go to something useful like my email account and Google search?
The only problem I have with this is that the hotkey buttons are not programmable: i.e. the e-mail button only opens Outlook and cannot be set to open my Gmail web mail page.
A great review.
Very informative, Thanks Mark!
Great information. I have a laptop with a touchpad, but remember how annoying those mouse wires can be.
I know the feeling. I pull my keyboard tray out, the mouse runs out of wire and it's pulled off the tray. I then have to dig around and find it. Hmmm. Going wireless with this product may be the way to go. Thanks, Mark!