[geeks] 1U rackmount KVM switch

[Nick B]

My experience is the same, if not worse.  IOGear is, in my experience,
cheaply built and poorly designed.  I generally like
http://avocent.com/Products/Products.aspx though don't expect "cheap".
Nick

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>  $1600 seems like a reasonable price, but no exp with IOGear hardware...
>>
>
> My anecdotal experience with IOGear keyboard/display switches is that
> their tiny USB two-host units lose USB interfaces really quickly (under 6
> months).  For quite a while, just about everyone at $ork had a desktop PC
> (for officey things), a desktop SPARC (for CAD/simulation things), and a
> single large display.
>
> I don't recall if the difference was statistically significant (either due
> to the type of host or which port it was plugged into), but people would
> frequently find the thing unable to control the SPARC--the USB interface
> on the switch had gone dead.
>
> --
> Jonathan Patschke    |    "It is easier to build two chimneys than to
> Elgin, TX            %     keep one in fuel."
> USA                  |                            --Benjamin Franklin
> ______________________________**_________________
> GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/**mailman/listinfo/geeks<http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks>