{"id":695,"date":"2005-08-15T20:11:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T01:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/15\/linkskey-usb-and-audio-kvm-switch\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T20:11:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T01:11:55","slug":"linkskey-usb-and-audio-kvm-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/15\/linkskey-usb-and-audio-kvm-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkskey USB and Audio KVM Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/linkskey-usb-kvm.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"176\" alt=\"Linkskey USB Plus Audio KVM\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to use two computers with a single monitor, USB mouse and USB keyboard, you might want to check out the Linkskey USB KVM switch (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817107225\">$28 @ Newegg.com<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>This unit includes built-in cables for the USB, VGA, speakers and microphone ports, making the overall setup clean and simple.  Since I have two sets of speakers for my computers, I did not make use of the audio support, which is often the weakest feature in most KVM switches.  However, my 19&#8243; Samsung monitor, Saitek Eclipse USB keyboard and Microsoft USB mouse all work flawlessly with the device.<\/p>\n<p>The only drawback to the device comes from one of my two workstations running Ubuntu Linux, which seems to not want to allow the KVM to detect the double-tap of the scroll-lock key for quick switching, but placing the KVM in a convenient place so that I can easily use the button on the unit itself to switch from computer to computer has made this of little inconvenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to use two computers with a single monitor, USB mouse and USB keyboard, you might want to check out the Linkskey USB KVM switch ($28 @ Newegg.com). This unit includes built-in cables for the USB, VGA, speakers and microphone ports, making the overall setup clean and simple. Since I have two sets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/15\/linkskey-usb-and-audio-kvm-switch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linkskey USB and Audio KVM Switch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}