How does it handle 4 USB peripherals with one USB Type B connector per computer? Time-sharing? Any lag, or other performance issues noticed?
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It handles switching between devices with no lag. It electronically switches. The only issue I had was switching devices through the keyboard (certain key combos) , I had to manually switch and I am ok with that. I have found it to be the best KVM switch out there.
2046363
My experience with this device has been excellent with video, but a bit lacking with USB. It doesn't recognize 5 button mouse software. It defaults to 3 button at best. I tried several ways to make it succumb to my will but it refused to let certain data streams by. Can't label them. Can't discuss performance since it wouldn't even do what I needed. There are USB switches that work really well, but none have a better DVI switch that I found.
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My computer has USB1.0 and it works fine. It does wobble a wee bit in the port but I use my laptop on my lap sitting on a soft sofa so there's alot of movement. I'm very pleased with it so far.
937473
It only uses 1 port, but I opted to use a Logitech performance mouse and keyboard. For me, I desired a larger mouse and smaller keyboard. They work great!
992059
I guess that depends on the resources that you would be plugging into your usb's? Primarily I use them to monitor all of my Corsair hardware. I use a Asus Impact but I run into resource issues because I have two 4 drive USB hard drive towers. But I've not daisy-chain two.
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I am using it with a 7-port Amazon Basics USB 3.0 hub with mostly USB 2.0 devices attached to a Mac Mini and a PC. For the most part, it works well. I will occasionally see a glitch where my USB keyboard connected to the hub isn't recognized when I wake the computer out of sleep mode, but generally re-pressing the button snaps it back into shape. I haven't had it for very long, but so far I'm pretty happy with it.
860115
any cable with a usb connection will work great, it is nice to have the option to have 4 connection at one time
1107833
answer is in the info! 8 devices. Off course it can only handle (=have connection) 1 input at a time
1044199
Just like USB incarnations, or pci-e versions, they all work but any advanced technology device will still only run at the level of the interface it is connected to. So not the best, but it is nice that you can still use a better piece of equipment even at a slower speed. I am using it also at a slower speed too. But have plans to build another new one soon.
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Hi I am suing this with my MAC bookPRo and Surf 2.. without any issues. You should have no problem geting 4 additional ports. The picture is showing 3 but actually there are 4 ports. I am always super loading all the ports and this thing just works and works and works. Good luck
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I do not know the proper answer, but I presume the answer involves factors of power load and data throughput. Peripheral USB devices that have their own power source should result in more devices being workable. Likewise, more devices of low power draw can be supported than those that require higher power from the host device. As for data bandwidth, it stands to reason that more devices will have to share the maximum data transfer of the host device port. Even though I can't provide a definite answer, perhaps this will help identify issues to research further.
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Sorry, can't speak to that specific configuration. We are using win 7 home premium w/ usb 2.0. All I can say is that usb 3.0 was very glitchy and would not work consistently. Some of the interfaces are very slow, like using the printer. But overall works very well.
848646
Not sure if I'm understanding the quiestion. I'm currently using only one USB for both the keyboard and mouse and it works just fine.
1817197
No. It is *not a powered hub* and for the record, this is not just a "hub" in the normal sense. This is to switch up to 4 USB devices between 2 computers. I use it for a mouse, keyboard, and microphone and for those devices it works fine. This includes a Razer mouse that does not fully work with at least some other KVM solutions.
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please, anyone out there? i need to know if it works with windows 7 (feedback on many of the usb hubs report many problems with windows 7)
805620
Works fine with 7 and 8. Is much faster connected to USB3 port (if you have one)
1277820
It will support up to 4 devices, but you'd need a USB hub since there's only one USB port on the server. I know you can access multiple data storage devices, and it will do 3 USB drives + 1 printer. But I haven't tried connecting and individually accessing more than one printer. BTW: mine works fine from our Windows 8.1 computer as well as our others that are all running Windows 7.
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Yes, you will lose the USB 3 transfer rate unfortunately, otherwise its still USB where you can connect several peripherals