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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Great USB / DVI KVM switch
By John J. Robinson
I just purchased this KVM. Here are a few thoughts after using it for a few days:
REASON I BOUGHT THIS ONE: It had two USB 2.0 ports, and no PS2 ports. IOGear has had galore great client reviews for this, and other KVM products. I liked the fact that I plugged my own DVI cable into the switch to my monitor making cable length irrelevant. And finally, the one negative review I did see here was answered directly by an IOGEAR representative attempting to address the problem.
PACKAGING: Nice cardboard box, foam wrap around all internal components, manuals were in color and in plastic bags, the manual content is finish but concise in English.
QUALITY: Everything seems to be made of sturdy high quality components. The cables are thick, well insulated, and are generous length. You would only need to be concerned with cable length if your two machines are over 10 feet away from each other. There are plastic caps that cover the stereo cables if not in use and the cables themselves are color-coded. The cables plug into the switch ports firm and secure.
HOOK-UP: Couldn’t be easier. There was no need to look at the manual, everything is intuitive enough. There is a mini stereo jack cable for your left/right speakers and then one for your microphone. I have a 4.1 surround setup and I don’t have a need for a microphone. Well, good news for those like me… just use the microphone stereo port for your rear left/right and you will have full 4.1 surround through the KVM. This was a outstanding surprise, and it works.
INITIAL IMPRESSIONS: One problem I ran into was that my Logitech MX510 mouse has 5 further and added buttons. When run through the KVM it only detects a popular three button scroll wheel mouse. I never genuinely applied these buttons anyway, but it required me to reconfigure the mouse driver to speed up the cursor motion again.
I hid the KVM switch behind my desk and only see the slim remote button. The bottom of the button has a no-slip rubber pad, so you may lay it on your desk flat and it won’t genuinely slide anywhere. The button itself is easy to find and press without having to look at it.
Everything else worked outstanding right out of the box. Since this is a digital KVM switch, you don’t have to worry when it comes to quality of the signal. Either the signal arrives or it doesn’t. You get perfective clarity or not one thing at all. In my case, it’s perfect. There is utterly no divergence in display quality when equated to directly connected the computer to the display.
MY SPECS: Computer #1 is an older XP machine with a ATI 9800 graphics card. The other machine is an HP running 64-bit Windows 7 with a GeForce 260. The mouse is a Logitech MX510. The keyboard is an older Microsoft split ergonomic PS /2 keyboard. I employed a USB adapter without any issues at all. I hooked up a PC Works FourPointSurround (with subwoofer) through the two mini-stereo ports. Like I brought up earlier, you may use any instrumentation that uses two mini-stereo ports, it doesn’t have to be a microphone.
FINAL THOUGHTS: I am wholly satisfied and this product has met my expectations. My sentiment of IOGear has increased a few notches. When looking for future hardware, I’ll surely give IOGear a favorable consideration.
7 of 7 persons found the following review helpful.
Works with new Mac and Logitech G keyboards
By D. Goolsby
So my setup is a PC plugged into my display by way of DVI and I had an imac plugged in thru VGA when I used to work from home, and I’d part my G15 and G19 keyboards amongst the computers no problem.
That iMac is gone now, and I picked up one of those new 2010 Mac Minis. I decisive to spring for DVI this time, so I ordered this DVI KVM. By default, it specifically wants you to plug your keyboard into a keyboard port and your mouse into a mouse port. It does this because it emulates both. I believe the basic gist is to cut down on switching time when you go back and forth.
Well set up that way, my G19 would work as a keyboard, but all of the innovative functions wouldn’t work. I’d read someplace that someone with a G keyboard was using this KVM, so I re-read the manual and figured out what I necessitated to do.
I dumped the kb port and plugged my kb into the mouse port, and then my Performance MX little receiver is plugged into my G19. There’s one catch that you have to do, you have to disable the mouse emulation. Once you do that, everything works fine, I have a entirely functioning G19 and Performance MX mouse switching amidst both computers. The instructions are on page 14 of the manual. Basically, you must be competent to hit the scroll lock key twice, and your scroll lock light on your keyboard must get started blinking. Then hit the “m” key, then enter. That’s it, you’ve turned off the mouse emulation mode and you will have to be all good.
EDIT: One addition, I’m not going to change the rating, but I ran into something weird. I was syncing 2 iphones and for the duration of that amount of time the kb/mouse would disconnect and reconnect a few times to my PC. This has never happened before and has stopped once the syncing was done, and the phones were not connected to the kb/mouse/kvm, so that’s weird.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Works! Disable Mouse Mode!
By Michael M
This IOGEAR KVM works very well switching amid my new Mac-Mini and Windows 7 Gateway PC. My only performance complaint has little to do with the KVM itself. If my SATA-connected Western Digital MyBook is turned on, it may take up to a minute for the PC to recognize all the peripherals connected on the USB hub.
In order to make use of all the peripherals I use regularly, I elected to connect a USB Hub to the “mouse” USB port rather of a committed mouse. I don’t use the purple, committed keyboard port at all. Initially I necessitated to connect a USB keyboard to that port and disable Mouse mode. The instruction book will tell you how to do this. Once Mouse mode was disabled I was capable to connect a powered USB hub (Belkin FSU234 – couldn’t find on Amazon but I’m sure any would work). To the hub I connected my Microsoft Wireless Desktop (mouse and keyboard), Logitech USB headset, and Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000. The Mac-Mini works with all of these. As brought up before the PC works fine except if the MyBook is turned on.
The sound works fine (I have a basic 2+1 speaker setup) and the DVI picture quality is magnificent on my Acer X223 monitor.
I think my set up complaint would be that the computer connection cables are a little short if you have computers on opposite sides of the desk. My computers are 3 feet apart but it was still difficult finding a happy landing place for the KVM. It is presently on the floor amidst the 2.
I use the little remote to switch schemes rather than a keyboard hot key. The hot key doesn’t seem to work with the hub.
All in all I’m finelooking happy with this. The mac handles the switching flawlessly. Sometimes the PC will hesitate or require rebooting when the MyBook is turned on.
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