speed difference between hard wired and bluetooth keyboards

[adam fulton]

My friends all say that hardwire keyboards are faster responding than Bluetooth. I really do not believe that at all. I looked it up and could not find anywhere that someone did a latency test on Bluetooth and hard wired keyboards. So I am here asking now. The deference cant be more than a few milliseconds, which hardly something like a person is going to notice. I would really like to see a latency test comparing the two if anyone has that information. I do not want a "hard wire is faster because I can notice it" or "hard wire if faster because it is well hard wired" That is what everyone says I am looking for scientific proof of the fact. I do not notice the difference at all. The reason it even came up was I wanted a wireless Bluetooth mechanical keyboard. I found ONE tried it and hated it. But that is beside the point I just want some proof that the time difference is something that can be noticed.

 

[johnb35]

I really can't answer that question but not a lot of people use bluetooth keyboards for the simple fact that you can't access bios settings using a bluetooth keyboard as the bluetooth driver only loads during windows.

 

[adam fulton]

well that makes sense I guess but still leaves the question to why there are Bluetooth membrane keyboards. Well since Bluetooth mechanical keyboards don't exist really, here is a new question. is there a way to cut the wire off the keyboard and put a Bluetooth dongle at the end? If that makes sense. I really want a blue tooth mechanical keyboard for my laptop it is the last wire I need to get out of my bag besides the charger. I was just trying to find a good reason why they don't make BT mechanical keyboards and everyone says because it responses faster. But like I said I don't notice it at all.

 

[adam fulton]

no need to reply I just found a website that has eight wireless mechanical keyboard reviews, lol. -_-" I do not know why it was not there when I was looking earlier. But thank you for your feedback.

 

[C4C]

If you go wireless with Bluetooth, make sure you keep a good ol' wired keyboard/mouse to access bios functions!

I personally prefer wired because there's no charging or connectivity issues, but I like wireless for the clean desk look.

 

[Geoff]

Wired does have less latency than wireless, it's simply that wireless has interference and is more prone to collisions in the air and retries than wired. Now how much of a difference is another story, and not one I have hard facts on. Personally, my opinion is why go wireless on something that doesn't move, like a keyboard that sits on a desk it's entire life.

is there a way to cut the wire off the keyboard and put a Bluetooth dongle at the end? If that makes sense.

No, you can't "cut off" the USB connection and stick on a bluetooth adapter. You could get some sort of wireless USB device, but then you'd have to power that device. It wouldn't be embedded in the keyboard like an actual wireless keyboard, and would be much more clunky than a simply cable.