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

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:10:35 -0500, micky
<[email protected]> 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.