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Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:10:35 -0500, micky
<NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

>Running two computers at once. 
>
>It happened sort of by accident but now I'm runing my laptop and my
>desktop all the time.  And I have a spare computer I really should set
>up.  
>
>To use just one mouse and one keyboard and switch them from PC to PC, I
>need a KVM switch, but it seems that those that supply more than 2
>computers all have HDMI outputs.   And maybe I should get HDMI just
>because it's newer than USB. But my laptop and desktop inputs are all
>USB.   I gather someone like me is supposed to get an HDMI to USB cable,
>but that seems to connect only the mouse OR the keyboard, not both?  

Well, I think I answered my own first question by looking at the Q&A in
Amazon.  The 4-port I was looking at by MT-VIKI apparently carries both
mouse and keyboard on their special HDMI to HDMI/USB cable.  Is that
going to require any feature in my laptop or desktop which they don't
have, since both are old?  Or can just about anything receive a merged
mouse/keyboard USB signal? 

But people have complained about flashing on the screen when changing
pcs and there is even a user video about it.  (One  reason Amazon is
popular.  It's a 3rd party and it lets people criticize the product.)

BTW, a few months ago, Amazon went from showing the Q&A to making you
ask a question first, even when there are only a few questions already. 

It took me longer than it should have but putting in one letter, like an
a, will give you a look at every question that includes the letter or
maybe the word a. 

> So
>what am I to do? 
>
>I don't want to use only one monitor. It's good to be able to look at
>both so easily .

I don't really have room for a 3rd monitor but the current one and a
laptop fit fine. 

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Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-16 14:10 -0500
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2023-11-16 19:23 +0000
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-16 14:57 -0500
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-16 15:17 -0500
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2023-11-16 21:19 +0100
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 21:35 -0500
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2023-11-18 09:15 +0100
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-11-16 15:59 -0500
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 22:22 -0500
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-11-17 23:03 -0500
        Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 23:37 -0500
          Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-18 12:57 -0500
            Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-19 11:00 -0500
              Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-19 14:39 -0500
        Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2023-11-18 11:50 -0600
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-12-03 10:12 -0500
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-12-03 14:14 -0500
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2023-11-16 21:20 +0000
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-16 19:08 -0500
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2023-11-16 15:36 -0600
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-16 19:03 -0500
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 20:15 -0500
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2023-11-17 09:38 +0100
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 20:08 -0500
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2023-11-17 20:26 -0600
        Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2023-11-18 09:25 +0100
          Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2023-11-18 13:10 -0600
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at  once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 22:19 -0500
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-11-17 12:21 -0500
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-17 20:26 -0500
      Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-11-17 23:45 -0500
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2023-11-17 20:02 -0600
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2023-11-18 13:29 +0000
  Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2023-11-18 14:18 +0000
    Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2023-11-18 11:48 -0500

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