Belkin 2-Port KVM Switch with Audio Support and Built-In Cabling (USB, F1DL102U)

Average customer rating: 2.0

Great value for the money paid
Works ok after some fiddling
Works Fine For Me...
Typical Belkin Junk
Junk - Continuously auto-switches.

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Belkin 2-Port KVM Switch with Audio Support and Built-In Cabling (USB, F1DL102U)

Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0001BRD62

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Product Description

This Switch provides an affordable KVM solution that saves workspace while giving you control of two USB computers from one console. Its compact design - with 8-foot, built-in cabling - saves you time on installation, space on your desktop, and money you don't have to spend on cables and peripherals. The Switch includes such features as audio and mic support, a manual port selector and software that makes switching ports easy. The unit supports high-quality video resolution of up to 2048x1536 through built-in, Belkin coaxial VGA cabling.

Customer Reviews:

Great value for the money paid.......2007-01-03

I think this is a very nice switch box, when configuring computers this is a must.

Works ok after some fiddling.......2006-12-19

Initial installation worked fine, both mouse and display were switched w/o any problem, but my Compaq Desktop keyboard was not recognized by my laptop after switching. Upgrading the laptop BIOS and installing correct keyboard drivers fixed this issue.

It's strange that the product documentation does not contain information about hot key support: pressing Scroll Lock 4 times in a row will switch - an important undocumented feature. Thanks to "JustMe" for pointing this out!

The other thing I don't like is the Audio support cables: If I plugin the USB cable into the back of my laptop docking station, the audio cables are not long enough to reach the front, where audio ports are located. Fortunately, audio support is only a minor requirement for me.

Switching time for me is about 3 seconds, which is kind of what I expected to get.

Overall, 3 stars ...

Works Fine For Me..........2006-12-11

I have mine hooked up using only one of the usb ports for my Microsoft Wireless Desktop (Wireless Comfort Keboard 1.0A & Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0).

I use it to switch from my Dell Dimension Desktop to my HP TC1100 Tablet in a Docking Station that I use spanning both monitors.

Audio & Monitor switching works fine using the hardware switch or the software switch. USB 1.0 fine for keyboard & mouse.

Does everything I expected, using my wireless keyboard & mouse!

Typical Belkin Junk.......2006-08-07

I wasted a couple hours of life on this JUNK.

Decides for itself when you want to change inputs.

If you push the button, 50% of time it fails to correctly hold new signal after user button press, swapping you back to other machine. The other half of the time it never finds the new signal and swaps you back to the first machine.

Junk - Continuously auto-switches........2006-07-28

This is an absolute P.O.S.
As someopne else said, it auto-switches everytime you reboot a machine, and apparently any other time the O/S or BIOS decides to re-initialise the USB ports. What it does is switch back over to the other input when you reboot the machine you're working on.

Even worse than that... it won't stay selected on a machine if that machine hasn't initialised its USB ports properly, e.g.:

I am working on a dead machine here which hasn't managed to get its USB drivers up and running properly yet (it's midway through the XP repair/setup), so I'm only running video through the KVM and have a ps/2 keyboard attached to the machine. This would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that after about 5 seconds this junk KVM decides to switch back to my main machine. I do have the KVM's USB cable (for mouse/keyboard) plugged into the machine as well, but until XP setup installs the USB drivers and 'connects', this thing will continue to keep switching away from the machine I'm working on.

I had much better luck just using an extra keyboard/mouse and the input-selector on my Monitor.

100% JUNK.

If you aren't rebooting computers regularly, and you can put up with the above, then there is the other problem of the delay. As another writer said, there is a delay of around 5 seconds when you switch. This is because the device basically performs a USB connect / disconnect. This means you also get the "dum daa" USB noise (the sound that Windows XP makes whenever you plug-in a USB device). The only thing is, you get it twice. Once for the 'virtual' mouse and once for the 'virtual' keyboard.

Pressing the select button on the top isn't exactly responsive either. Sometimes you have to press a few times, or give up and wait 10 seconds and try again. Or unplug the damn thing from all USB ports and try again. Or just unplug it and throw it away.

I suppose it has to be 1 star. There's no option for zero-stars.

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