KVM Switch

[Robert L Cochran]

Your post (and Martin's too) puts a big smile on me because I think
Belkin gouges consumers viciously on price, with a lot of help from
retailers. Spending $40 for a few feet of network cable and $30 for
fewer feet of USB cable...well...I crimp my own ethernet cable and I've
been getting 10 foot lengths of Pan Pacific brand A-to-B USB cable in
simple plastic bags (not those horrible clamshells that threaten to
slice me open from shoulder to belly) for $3.69 plus tax. Works great.
GreatCables.com has similar pricing.

Anyhow, you and Martin are right, I see no reason to buy Belkin
products. Ugh. 

Thanks for the reccomendation for the KVM switch.

Bob Cochran

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:57, jdow wrote:
> I am using an OmniView Pro-II. It works adequately with a mixed batch
> of Linux and Windows machines. My initial experience with Belkin moves
> me to declare that it will be a cold cold day on the surface of the Sun
> before I do business with them again.
> 
> 1) The unit contains a design flaw that caused an oscillation on vertical
>    edge features on very high resolution display settings. I had to
>    reengineer the unit, adding (back!) just the right bypass capacitor
>    to its output amplifier. This oscillation was at resolutions within
>    the specified handling capability of the box.
> 
> 2) I complained to Belkin. They offered to exchange the unit. This was
>    a brand new unit with a severe design defect. They shipped me a
>    used replacement unit that had the front panel buttons mismounted,
>    the case badly scuffed, and a worse oscillation. I ended up attempting
>    and managing a repair on the new unit that I had bought and boxed the
>    badly damaged used unit back to Belkin in better condition than when
>    I received it. (In order to test it I had to disassemble the box and
>    reassemble it with the buttons poking out of the front panel slots
>    cut out for them.)
> 
> In view of these two items I would highly recommend avoiding Belkin.
> I intend to do so myself in the future. All I can say for the unit
> is that it now functions at the low end of adequately for my needs.
> 
> {^_^}
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert L Cochran" <cochranb at speakeasy.net>
> 
> Can anyone suggest a KVM switch that works? I'm thinking of trying to
> connect 3 boxes to one monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Cochran
> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
> 
> 
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