Cheesehead:
When you replace your computer, make sure the new one supports a bluetooth mouse. Truly a great improvement. We replaced ours 2 years ago and use bluetooth mouse and printer. Laptop instead of desktop. Only one chord, and that's the charger. Excellent! If I were buying today, I'd want WiFi capability for the printer because so many devices can print to one now.
Ugh. I'm as big of a techie as they, come, but I'm a staunch believer in using wireless only where it's truly needed. Wireless mice are not as sentitive as a good corded laser mouse (and yes, there is a difference between a laser mouse and a standard optical mouse
). Wi-Fi internet connections are certainly less reliable than wired connections (not to mention slower). Don't get me wrong, for the most part, they're "good enough", but still nowhere near wired reliability.
As such, though I have a wireless router, all of my desktops (currently 4 machines) use wired connections. My file server uses a wired connection. Printer too. My AppleTV in the living room has a wired connection that I had to go into the attic stringing CAT6 to get, even though it has built-in Wifi. All of my desktops use wired mice and keyboards.
The only wireless I use is on my phone, and on my laptop. The laptop needs to move around a lot so I use the wireless from the router on it, and I do use a bluetooth mouse on it as well. Other than that though, I view wireless as a fallback, rather than a preferred, solution. If your home is old and you can't afford to wire it right, then by all means connect all your machines via wifi. If it's new construction though, or you really want the best experience possible, you're get better reliability and speed out of installing good old fashioned wires. For a desktop that spends 99% of it's life parked in the same spot, I just can't fathom doing anything else.
