A USB receiver or connector (also known as a USB dongle) helps establish a wireless connection between your PC/laptop and the wireless keyboard to use within the supported range or distance.

to USB devices not supported by popular software. In this how-to we design a USB infrared receiver that imitates a common protocol supported by software for Windows, Linux, and Mac. We’ve got a ...

I have - an expensive - Plugable Thunderbolt dock/hub. I put the USB receiver on the hub, and the mouse was unusable! Slow, jerky action. When I plug it into the Mac, it's fine (but now I have no ...

The receiver extends only 8mm from the USB port, and uses the 2.4GHz wireless band with 128-bit AES encryption. An accompanying application, Logitech's Unifying software, is used to control ...