[ale] KVM or alternative

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 13 February 2003 06:25 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:22 pm, Josh Freeman wrote:
> >>I wouldn't get a 2 port KVM unless they are substantially cheaper than
> >>the 4 port. I don't know about you, but I keep having more and more
> >>machines show up on my desk, and I kept an extra set of wires so I
> >> could hook up a machine when my [mom's | friend's ] machine broke and
> >> showed up on my doorstep
> >
> >I find the 2 port switches significantly more convienient to use.  They
> >usually have some very simple way of toggling between the two
> > computers. The 4 ports are much less convenient.
>
> What's less convenient about them. It's the same number of keystrokes to
> switch between any computer....

With my Linksys 2 port I just tap the Control key twice to switch.  When I 
had a Linsys 4 port it was some sctrange control-something followed by the 
number I want to switch to.  So I actually have to think about which 
screen I want to change to and remember the proper key combination.

Same thing with my Belkin 4 port.  I need to scrolllock-scrolllock-n when n 
is 1, 2, 3, or 4.  I need to know where I'm going.  I often get it wrong.  
But I *never* get it wrong with the 2 port linksys and it is faster, too.

Michael
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