Belkin F1DG102U Flip 2-Port KVM Switch with Audio Support (USB Connection)

Average customer rating: 3.0

Works well with wireless devices
sore head
This one worked- may be a new redesign or revision, or maybe using a hub helps
An expensive paperweight with legs.
Do Not Buy If You Have a IMAC & IBOOK

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Belkin F1DG102U Flip 2-Port KVM Switch with Audio Support (USB Connection)

Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000F8J0TE

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Product Description

<b>Package Contents:</b> Remote, base with cables, optional fastener strip, user guide

The Belkin Flip Plus Audio 2-Port KVM Switch offer you a great way to work and play on your laptop, almost anywhere. Sometimes you just don't feel like sitting in front of a tiny display and cramped keyboard. Instead of dealing with that, just click and flip. Just place the remote anywhere on your desk and press to flip your monitor from one computer to the next. Now use your big monitor and full-sized keyboard for both your laptop and desktop computer. It's also great for connecting your old and new desktop computers -- giving you instant access to files, programs, and games on both computers. Simple to install -- just 3 easy steps, with no software required USB

Customer Reviews:

Works well with wireless devices.......2007-06-02

this works well with a logitech wireless set i have, though the mouse is ps2 and connects directly to one machine. i have a logitech wireless usb trackball on the other usb port, and both the keyboard and trackball respond after switching the kvm, though a 5ish-second delay is required.
the audio is relayed properly as well, though i haven't done any audio-quality comparisons.
once in a while, the unit will automatically switch to the other kvm set if only one machine is powered up. i'd be watching a movie from a laptop and it'd switch 3 times every 10 minutes, and would go away, but its annoying when my butt is adhered to my bed.

i'm running a dell e1705 laptop and an older white box with a radeon AIW 8500 to a sony 46s2010 lcd tv, and would definitely buy this again with the small problems, versus buying another set and risk gaining either a perfect situation or a very problematic one. and i do like the little flip instead of the whole unit sitting atop my desk.

sore head.......2007-05-10

Don't get this unless you intend to spend considerable time under your desk... Mine works for up to two days at a time, whereupon I must climb under my desk to un and re-plug the USB ports in both computers to reactivate it. Watch your head getting back up, and expect to do this several times a week. Also, sound won't always shift with computers, so you'll get the sound from one computer with the KVM of the other.

This one worked- may be a new redesign or revision, or maybe using a hub helps.......2007-04-25

The one I got does the job and seems to do it well. I have it set up to flip between an Intel Mac Mini and an old HP PC. It does not look like the one in the picture on this page. The main difference is that mine has a single cable attachment on the back of the trapezoid-shaped front where the parts are, with the two cables coming out of the back of that attachment, instead of the one in the photo which shows two "prongs" coming from the back of the front ports part, with one independent cable coming out of each prong.

The physical difference isn't really important, I'm just showing that the one I got appears to be very different, so maybe Belkin made some revisions that improve it's operation.

It isn't perfect. I'm using an older Microsoft mouse and keyboard with it, but for some reason it does not successfully switch over the mouse when it's plugged directly into the Flip. I got around it by plugging three peripherals into a USB hub (keyboard, mouse, and printer) and plugging that into the keyboard port on the Flip. I also happen to have a card reader plugged into the mouse port on the Flip. In this configuration, all the peripherals have so far (as of about six days of usage) successfully "flipped" when I push the remote flip button. On the PC side, it takes a few seconds for Windows XP to recognize all the peripherals being plugged in again, but it's not a big deal. On the Mac side, no issues except every once in a great while the mouse will stop moving for a few seconds (while my drawing tablet, plugged directly into the Mac, will keep working). I don't even know that that has anything to do with the Belkin Flip.

Audio and monitor all seem to work fine with the flipping. The Mac Mini has a DVI-to-VGA adapter, and the Flip seems to be fine with it. So ultimately I'm very satisfied with this product as it has been working for the past several days. Maybe plugging stuff into a USB hub and plugging that into the Flip somehow helps things. Or maybe Belkin has a new version of this product that has been fixed or improved. The 10-digit UPC code for the one I bought was 22868 58850, with the same model number as above (F1DG102U).

An expensive paperweight with legs........2007-04-23

Funny, it's got a hardwired flip button but doesn't work. The kvm switch acts more like it's software based. Maybe they should have wrote drivers for the device. The linux box seemed to support it, but connecting it to my windows box and the kvm switch became unresponsive.

Do Not Buy If You Have a IMAC & IBOOK.......2007-04-14

I bought this product to hook up my IMac & IBook. In the specs it said it would work on a Mac OS, so thought it would work. When I brought it out of the package I knew right away that it would not work based on the cables. Got in touch with Belkin and they said that it would not work. I told the rep that they should put that in the information since a lot of people are using Imacs now. He was not that responsive. Now the product is all boxed back up to be shipped back to Amazon.

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