[AlienBogeyAgain]

Here's what I want to do: We're installing a desk/work area in a corner of our kitchen for my wife. She wants a Mini Mac to live in the cupboard, the screen to mount on the wall on an arm, and the wireless keyboard and mouse to scurry about on the countertop immediately underneath the cupboard.
Sounds great and that's the plan, but then I got to wondering weather bluetooth would reliably communicate from/to the Mini Mac in the cupboard about 2-3 feet away from the keyboard/mouse??
Any opinions, facts or educated guesses?
Thanks in advance.

[lkalliance]

Welllllllllll...you'd think it would. But having just installed the (trial version) of Salling Clicker on my new phone, I can say that I have my doubts.
Don't know if this is a shortcoming of Bluetooth or the Salling Clicker software or of the phone, but here's my setup:
iMac G5 in my home office (converted dining room). It's on the opposite side of the wall from the kitchen, through a shallow pantry. So, if you were looking at a schematic, imagine the kitchen on top, the office below, and the shared wall has a pantry on one side and my computer on the other. Open pathways on the left and right.
So in theory I'd like to control my iTunes from the kitchen table. Direct line through the pantry to the kitchen table, perhaps 12-15 feet, WELL within bluetooth range. I am consistently unable to connect that way. I can connect from other areas of the house with fewer walls between, from further away.
Perhaps the electronic circuitry in the wall and pantry (electical circuits, coax cable, telephone) creates interference. If I move towards the doorway between the two rooms I can connect at roughly the same distance...the only thing different is the what's in the direct line.
You may not have the same problems, and it sounds like you're in much closer range too, but you may want to (somehow) arrange some kind of test.

[sandbag1]

AlienBogeyAgain. The way you describe it you should have no problem. I use a blue tooth mouse and keyboard and they normally rest in a keyboard shelf in my heavy oak desk. This means it works through 3/4 inch of oak without any problem. Just for a test, I just walked out of my office and was able to do anything I wanted with the mouse and keyboard even when on the other side of a wall and 10 feet away.
Sounds like a cool setup for your wife.

[AlienBogeyAgain]

Thanks for the replies, guys.