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Farmerbobbeh
01-15-2010, 02:56 PM
Good afternoon DB crowd.

I come in the search for some advice on what is a good KVM and what is not.
I recently started multi-boxing again (or atleast trying to get ISBoxer working :) )

When getting started I ordered this KVM Switch
http://www.lindy.ie/kvm-switch-compact-usb-audio-2-port/32797.html
Upon it's arrival I foolishly realise its a USB1 KVM Switch, so it's really slow, takes about 3 seconds to swap over to the other PC and the software leaves much to be desired. I read later that some of the new KVM software allows the mouse to trigger the swap when moving it from one screen to the other.
I also noticed that when swapping the keyboard that I have (Logitech G19) it takes some time for it to re-load the profiles. This I assume makes the process even slower. Does anyone know a way around this?

I was therefor wondering if anyone has had any good experience with hardware and software as far as KVM's go.
I'm looking for something I can order that is not super expensive but will be as quick and painless as possible in excecution.
I use three monitors if that matters but they are hooked up to two different PC's. I'm mainly looking for the keyboard/mouse swap.

Fursphere
01-15-2010, 04:46 PM
Software - Input Director. its great.

Hardware - Belkin Omniview Pro2 (8 or 16 port). These aren't made anymore, but if you can fine one they are awesome. Fast switching and support USB AND PS/2 per port (so you can mix)

Farmerbobbeh
01-22-2010, 04:44 AM
I've looked into Belkin as they seem to have a few KVM solutions that are quite interesting.

I have been looking at

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=404605#

And

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=379150#

I have a hard time figuring out which one would be best for what we usually do with multi-boxing however. Any ideas?