StarTech SV231UAF 2 Port VGA USB KVM and File Transfer New NIB - $40 - (Farmington, MI)

StarTech takes the KVM switch to the next level The SV231UAF is a new KVM product by StarTech aiming to address a number of snags that typical KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switches normally throw up, such as the fact they usually only accept peripherals of the PS/2 variety, rather than now-ubiquitous USB ones. This box offers two such ports specifically for mouse and keyboard, while also channeling both VGA and audio sources. While this is comprehensive, we have seen such products before, so where does this one diverge from the norm? Look deeper and StarTech has put a number of very interesting features in. the first was hinted at by the lack of any accompanying software disc, because the Windows-compatible tools are located on a flash drive that is accessed by connecting the device Once you’ve installed it on both systems you can use some of the clever features that most KVM devices don’t support. These include a PIP (Picture in Picture) mode, where you can see the other PC in a panel on your PC desktop, and even copy files to that PC. That sounds like a great feature, and it does work, but for whatever reason StarTech decided to implement it without any hardware acceleration. Making it painfully slow- and rendered in a 256 color mode, irrespective of the systems you are using. The reality is that, in its present form, it’s actually worse to use than RemoteDesktop- a solution that’s inherently in most versions of Window sin around today. What I did like was the hot-key ability to switch to the other system from the keyboard, and the variation on that which didn’t switch the audio. That last bit is critical, because you can set a system doing something and then be alerted by a “beep’ to know that it needs your attention. The box comes with its own special cables that are 4ft and 6ft long, respectively, allowing a maximum theoretical separation of 10ft. that said, you’ll probably want the box more conveniently placed near one of the computers, so 5-6…

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