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Belkin 2-PORT KVM Switch With Cables Keyboard/ Video/ MOUSEPS/2
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Works intermittently; seriously flawed design
(1 out of 5) by Todd Scott on Aug 3, 2004 (Royal Oak, MI USA)The switch will work rather flawlessly for a week then fail miserably. The hot switch refuses to work for no reason. Since the switch does not have a power switch or reset button (significant design flaws) you have to crawl behind your PCs and disconnect all of the plugs. Sometimes I've had to power off a PC without a proper shutdown in order for the switch to recover. Given the hot switches inability to work, Belkin should have at least put a manual switch on the box.
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Belkin F1DK102P is garbage
(1 out of 5) by Justin Gombos on Mar 4, 2005 (belgium)This Belkin KVM switch is crap. They've set it up so that you have to press:
SCROLL LOCK then SCROLL LOCK then ARROW
That's 3 buttons, and it's just plain stupid. Up arrow goes to the previous port, and down arrow to goes to the next port. Guess what -- on a 2 port switch, the next port IS the previous! It's a very poor design. Now we know why they're giving these things away at pc connection.
The Linksys version of this 2-port molded switch is a better design, in that simply pressing scroll lock twice switches to the other port and that's it.
Furthermore, the Belkin F1DK102P periodically causes Windows machines to change resolution, and the only rememedy is to switch back and forth a couple times. It also jams sometimes, sending repeated arrows to the linux box.
The only thing Belkin has over Linksys is a three year warranty (vs Linksys' one year warranty). But I consider fast convenient switching more important. Also, the Linksys one year warranty becomes two years if you buy it with a credit card.
SCROLL LOCK then SCROLL LOCK then ARROW
That's 3 buttons, and it's just plain stupid. Up arrow goes to the previous port, and down arrow to goes to the next port. Guess what -- on a 2 port switch, the next port IS the previous! It's a very poor design. Now we know why they're giving these things away at pc connection.
The Linksys version of this 2-port molded switch is a better design, in that simply pressing scroll lock twice switches to the other port and that's it.
Furthermore, the Belkin F1DK102P periodically causes Windows machines to change resolution, and the only rememedy is to switch back and forth a couple times. It also jams sometimes, sending repeated arrows to the linux box.
The only thing Belkin has over Linksys is a three year warranty (vs Linksys' one year warranty). But I consider fast convenient switching more important. Also, the Linksys one year warranty becomes two years if you buy it with a credit card.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Don't waste your money
(1 out of 5) by ANDREW A. DELAIX on Sep 3, 2005 (Oakland, CA)I just purchased this switch for use with a desktop and laptop in my office. The shielding on the cables or the internal components is completely inadequate and the two signals obviously interfere with each other. Unless I set the refresh rate from the video out of the laptop to 60Hz and the desktop to 75Hz I get waves of distortion tracking horizontally accross the screen (I have no idea what is magic about these rates). My advice: get a product with much better shielding than this one or plan to spend a lot of time fooling with refresh rates to hopefully squelch the groovy distortions from the video cross talk.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Useless junk
(1 out of 5) by Ken on Jul 15, 2005 (Milpitas, CA)It doesn't reliably switch between computers. I use a Dell & a Compaq. This thing decides to stay at the Compaq and will not let me switch back to the Dell until I unplug cables on the Compaq. Add to that, there are times that I am at the Compaq and my keyboard no longer works, even when I unplug/plug in the KVM. I have to cycle the PC!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
worked great..then not
(2 out of 5) by Brooklyn Boy on Sep 8, 2004 (Brooklyn, NY United States)had this working fine with a microsoft wireless mouse/keyboard and switching between an XP box and a Linux box. then 1 day it just quit. i crawled behind and unplugged and replugged and powered off and on both machines and nothing. there's nothing to troubleshoot either. no software, no manual switch nothing. reading the manual is useless - it's either gonna work - or not. i'll get a switch with a manual switch next time and probably not one by belkin.