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Stealth
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I'm wanting to control multiple computers over multiple monitors via a kvm switch. Say I want to switch my dell monitor over to my emachine computer or my emachine monitor over to my dell computer. Does anybody know of any reasonable priced hardware out there for that.
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Brian4o5
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Why buy hardware, do it for free with software.

http://synergy-foss.org/
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I suppose the phrase "reasonable priced" is relative, but the short answer is no.

What you are asking for is a KVM Matrix. They DO NOT come cheap.

The two best places I found for them back when I was looking into it were NTI and Gefen.

DVI and USB are particularly difficult, because of the digital handshake that occurs between the computers and devices. Anything requiring HDCP is another mess entirely.

Software solutions like Synergy or Multiplicity are the best solution if each computer has it's own monitor.

If you want to share a monitor between computers, in my experience, you want to do one of the following: Setup a standard KVM on one monitor only, this could be a 3rd added monitor. Buy a monitor that has a convenient interface for switching which input is displayed. Buy a monitor that will auto-switch to an input with a signal if the current input has no signal. For this, you need an easy way in software to turn off the output from computer A or computer B.

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thanks for the info blu
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Hey blu, what do you think about this?

http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=510&sku=39973
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