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    From Nightfox to All on Sun Mar 27 16:33:28 2011
    I've used a few KVM switches in the past, and I've found tht KVM switches usually have occasional glitches of some sort - sometimes some keyboard keys don't work, sometimes the picture on the monitor is bad after switching to another computer, etc.. I was wondering, why do KVM switches have these glitches so often? Is it really that difficult to switch the connection of the keyboard, mouse, and monitor to a different computer? Ideally, it should be just like unplugging them from one computer and plugging them into a different computer, and it should work fine.

    Nightfox
  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Nightfox on Thu Apr 21 23:12:38 2011
    On 3/27/2011 4:33 PM, Nightfox wrote:
    I've used a few KVM switches in the past, and I've found tht KVM switches usually have occasional glitches of some sort - sometimes some keyboard keys don't work, sometimes the picture on the monitor is bad after switching to another computer, etc.. I was wondering, why do KVM switches have these glitches so often? Is it really that difficult to switch the connection of the
    keyboard, mouse, and monitor to a different computer? Ideally, it should be just like unplugging them from one computer and plugging them into a different
    computer, and it should work fine.

    DVI/HDMI + USB ones are a lot more stable.. the bigger issue is that some are passive, some active, and some systems just don't work with a keyboard or mouse (ps/2) being unplugged and re-plugged in... not always the KVM...

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  • From Nightfox to Tracker1 on Fri Apr 22 07:55:53 2011
    Re: Re: KVM switches
    By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Thu Apr 21 2011 23:12:38

    DVI/HDMI + USB ones are a lot more stable.. the bigger issue is that some ar passive, some active, and some systems just don't work with a keyboard or mouse (ps/2) being unplugged and re-plugged in... not always the KVM...

    I have a DVI-USB KVM, and I've had some issues with it as well occasionally.

    Nightfox