Ishar
06-30-2009, 03:25 PM
So, for hardware multiboxers I discovered that Syba makes a pci-expansion card that adds 2 ps/2 ports to a system. I bought it, because although the Y-keys works really, really well, its rather prohibitively expensive. Alternatively, there are USB y-splitters(1 male USB connection to 2 female ps/2 connections) that work 'ok' but I get an issue with them where the keyboard has random keys not work. (For instance, on one 'boot' the space bar wont work on slave 3, the y key wont work on slave 4, the escape key on another slave, etc. its usually just 1 or two keys, and sometimes its either no key or an obscure key I dont notice.)
At any rate, when I saw the PCI card....i bought it. ps2 ports fro 10 bucks, yay! Got it, realized it was low profile. crap. contacted Syba, and they sent me regular profile brackets (the brackets for the 2 ps/2 2 usb ports version) which fit my card, but have holes where the usb ports are not. So, props for syba. anyway, got them, tested, no weird key-not work issues so far, and only marginally more expensive than the USB y-splitters, so thought someone might be interested.
Links:
2 PS/2 ports, low profile bracket: SD-LP-UPS2 ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124061') $9.99
2 ps/2 ports, 2 usb ports, regular bracket: SD-NECPS-2U2PS2 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124045) $14.99
Anyway, maybe this will help someone. This is not really necessary for anyone that buys the new version of a Vetra....only the people with a Multicaster and a separate KVM really need extra PS/2 keyboard ports.
Ishar
At any rate, when I saw the PCI card....i bought it. ps2 ports fro 10 bucks, yay! Got it, realized it was low profile. crap. contacted Syba, and they sent me regular profile brackets (the brackets for the 2 ps/2 2 usb ports version) which fit my card, but have holes where the usb ports are not. So, props for syba. anyway, got them, tested, no weird key-not work issues so far, and only marginally more expensive than the USB y-splitters, so thought someone might be interested.
Links:
2 PS/2 ports, low profile bracket: SD-LP-UPS2 ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124061') $9.99
2 ps/2 ports, 2 usb ports, regular bracket: SD-NECPS-2U2PS2 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124045) $14.99
Anyway, maybe this will help someone. This is not really necessary for anyone that buys the new version of a Vetra....only the people with a Multicaster and a separate KVM really need extra PS/2 keyboard ports.
Ishar