With this Belkin F5D5131FR8 Ethernetswitch, you can share your internet connection, ... more
documents and peripherals in awired local network. The Belkin F5D5131FR8 is ideal for home use and can be used with up to five peripherals, such as games consoles, comp...
Postage & Packaging: £3.89 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
With this Belkin F5D5131FR8 Ethernetswitch, you can share your internet connection, ... more
documents and peripherals in awired local network. The Belkin F5D5131FR8 is ideal for home use and can be used with up to five peripherals, such as games consoles, comp...
Postage & Packaging: £3.89 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Designed specifically for secure military and government installations, the OmniView ... more
Secure KVM Switch lets you control multiple USB computers from a single USB console. This product ensures the integrity of your data by safely switching among
Postage & Packaging:Free Delivery Availability:3-7 days
Belkin offers the only SMB KVM switch that provides easy and dependable multiplatform ... more
server control - the OmniView SMB CAT5 KVM Switch. Built to deliver extraordinary price and performance, this Switch provides centralized control of medium-sized
Postage & Packaging:Free Delivery Availability:3-7 days
Designed for use with your OmniView ENTERPRISE Quad-Bus Series KVM Switch, the Expander ... more
offers an affordable way to add ports to your configuration. Using the Expander rather than adding KVM Switches provides you with a cost savings of approximately
Postage & Packaging:Free Delivery Availability:3-7 days
Designed specifically for secure military and government installations, the OmniView ... more
Secure KVM Switch lets you control multiple USB computers from a single USB console. This product ensures the integrity of your data by safely switching among
Postage & Packaging:see site for shipping costs Availability:3-7 days
The 1X8 KVM Switch from Belkin allows control up to 8 servers from one consoles and is ... more
expandable to control up to 248 servers from up to four consoles. Using the most advanced technology to the KVM market in the patent-pending, quad-bus technology,
Postage & Packaging:Free Delivery Availability:3-7 days
Belkin offers the only SMB KVM switch that provides easy and dependable multiplatform ... more
server control - the OmniView SMB CAT5 KVM Switch. Built to deliver extraordinary price and performance, this Switch provides centralized control of medium-sized
Postage & Packaging:see site for shipping costs Availability:3-7 days
Designed for use with your OmniView ENTERPRISE Quad-Bus Series KVM Switch, the Expander ... more
offers an affordable way to add ports to your configuration. Using the Expander rather than adding KVM Switches provides you with a cost savings of approximately
Postage & Packaging:see site for shipping costs Availability:3-7 days
The 1X8 KVM Switch from Belkin allows control up to 8 servers from one consoles and is ... more
expandable to control up to 248 servers from up to four consoles. Using the most advanced technology to the KVM market in the patent-pending, quad-bus technology,
Postage & Packaging:see site for shipping costs Availability:3-7 days
Advantages: Advantages: Cheap, all in one solution Disadvantages: No manual overide or audio support
stops autoscanning and lets you use the currently selected PC.
The Belkin claims support for scrolling mice but I did find sometimes one PC would start up without recognising this facility if it wasn't the currently selected one when booting up and in extreme cases, wouldn't recognise the keyboard and mouse at all. Previous KVM's I've used send the PC fake 'There's a keyboard and mouse here' messages when not selected and it seems this unit does not, which is a pity.
Conclusion
The Belkin 2 port KVM is a well built unit that works nicely and provides a great way to save desk space and the cost of a second monitor, keyboard and mouse. The long leads are useful and despite the niggles with scrolling mice and the lack of manual switch. I'd say this unit is worth considering at this price if you can live with those shortcomings ...
Advantages: Cheap, all in one solution, audio support Disadvantages: No manual overide
It's surprising how many people have more than one PC at home although even more surprising is that many of them each have their own screen, keyboard and mouse.
In many cases this makes perfect sense but sometimes, you know you'll only ever use one or the other - perhaps one is your general PC and the other your music workstation. In these situations you can save a lot of space and money by investing in a KVM switch. KVM stands for Keyboard, Video and Mouse and allows you to use one keyboard, mouse and screen shared between two PCs.
This particular unit from Belkin is unusual in that it also includes audio support and also comes with all the leads permanently attached instead of being supplied as a separate cabling set.
Wiring it Up
Installation is simply a matter of taking each of the two main cables and plugging the sets ...
Advantages: Great if you dont have USB 2.0 Disadvantages: USB 2.0 is faster
A USB peripheral switch are useful items they will allow you to connect items such as camera's, scanners, external hard drives, mobile phones, PDA's etc to your laptop or personal home computer. This USB peropheral switch has only got two ports where most have a minimum of four ports and USB connections on modern PC's and laptops are supplied with USB 2.0 which is a faster system and therefore more efficient.
My conclusion is that this is a dated product that you can obtain a superior model unless you need it for connection with an the older USB 1.1 system, then Belkin is a great and trust worthy manufacturer, and this would be suitable to connect to your PC or Laptop and then to any of the items mentioned above.
Belkin are renound for the customer service standards though you should not need to use this as there products are ...
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Manufacturer's product description
Ideal for dial-up Internet connections, this Switch provides the backbone for sharing e-mail, printers, files, multiplayer games, and hard drives. One computer connects to the modem and the Switch, to become the Internet access point for all your connected computers. Using Internet Connection Sharing Software, you can now share your dial-up Internet access with up to seven additional computers. Expanding your network is easy - simply add more switches through the featured uplink port.
