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aventari 
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Posted on: Mar. 16 2001,00:15 |
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The mega-expensive ones we used when I worked at HP controlled 4 pc's and had the mouse/keyboard emulation. had the hotkeys and the monitor overlay and shit too. About the size of a 2U rackmount case..
Never had a hiccup switching between any of them, my boss said the switches cost a grand each!
A little pricey for the average home user.
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L33T_h4x0r_d00d
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Posted on: Mar. 16 2001,02:39 |
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At work we have a shit load of them cause everybody has 4-5 machines at thier desk. Most everybody had belkin kvms which suck ass. If you unplug the mouse from the kvm for 6-8 seconds then plug it back in it usually comes back. My kvm just died and I ordered the Linsys one. Its real basic, (no osd or keyboard swapover) BUT IT FUCKING WORKS. Now i need a decent cable setup, instead of the crappy belkin one. Any one know of one?
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@$$h0l3
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Well, I've had a few of these, so here's the scoop. I have a Belkin 4 port at work, with crappy extension cables. The signal bleeds from one set of cables to the other, which is very annoying. The other thing is that the keyboard/mouse emulation doesn't work very well. The only way to boot one machine without locking the mouse on the others is to switch to a different machine (not the one you are booting) and wait until the booting machine is all the way up. Also, the belkin doesn't have on screen display, so you have to either use the button on the box, or the alt/ctrl/shift/port number on KVM/enter method of switching. I had a linksys 4 (i think) port at my last job. No OSD, but I never had any problems with losing the mouse when I rebooted machines. The switching button was crappy, so I had to use the alt/ctrl/shift/port number on KVM/enter method to switch most of the time. At home I've got a Hawking Technology CS-148 8 port rack mountable KVM. It has OSD and supports nesting up to three levels, which would allow one to control 512 machines from one keyboard, monitor and mouse. I'm using StarTech 10' cables. They are the kind where all three cables are together (keyboard on one side of the video, mouse on the other). I haven't had any problems with bleed over or power signls affecting the video. I run at 1600x1200, and I don't have any problems. On my KVM I've switched between Redhat, NetBSD, Win95, WinNT 4.0, 2000 Professional and 2000 Advanced Server without any mouse problems. The only machine I have problems with is my crappy IBM 600E laptop. One of the IBM programs that runs at startup will lock the mouse if I already have it plugged into the kvm. I have to boot it, and then stick it in the docking station. Sorry to have rambled on so long. Reply if you have questions.
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) but my mouse doesn't always work. After I boot up the windows box and it's running right, the mouse is fine after I switch back and forth. On my linux box, it's another story. Atleast, when I'm in X (which I prefer to be in).
