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"Sharing peripherals between PC's"

Got two PC's beside each other that I want to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse with.

Someone mentioned a KVM switch (or something similar) and have seen a few things that might be suitable but the prices range from around £10 to over £40.
Anyone recommend a suitable solution to this problem to allow me to run both PC's at the same time and switch between which one uses the monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Thanks if you can help.

I was being sarcastic - saying he did not want the KVM simply because it was cheaper, though it did exactly the same thing, which I find incomprehensible.

Unless you're one of those "Great quality comes with great price" people.

Argh, monster, argh!

AliBoy wrote:
> So there would be no difference in say one costing £15 to one
> costing £60 other than the costs?

It's a question of quality and features, a cheap KVM is not going to be particularly high quality. To give you an example of what sort of gotchas there might be in buying a cheap KVM, once I bought an extension cable for my 21" monitor. The cable was not high quality, and the picture degredation was simply unbelievable. If you have a large monitor that needs a good quality cable, you will want a KVM that supports that. I have also heard about problems about people saying their mouse signal drops intermittently while using a KVM which put me off getting one myself, but I stress this is all third-hand. I guess if you want one your best bet would be to trawl through ebuyer.com's and look at the customer reviews, which can be very useful when evaluating a potential purchase.

So there would be no difference in say one costing £15 to one costing £60 other than the costs?

Coin wrote:
> Because it's... Cheaper?

That's like saying you need a device to move the mouse pointer on screen but mice cost five quid. A KVM is not only the cheapest solution (and they don't cost very much for what they do), it is the only solution outside of doing it manually.

Because it's... Cheaper?

So did we ever ascertain why you passed over the option of a KVM switch, given that it's designed to do what you want?

The Coin is sorry.

The Coin is pishing me off with all this "The Coin" nonsense :P

However, the Coin also thinks that he may do the same.

The Coin is greedy.

The Coin wants his own server to play CS:S with his fragmates.

The Coin decrees he will have to build a server first.

The Coin is scared.

Damarus wrote:
> In that case, I'd spend £100 doing what Coin suggests.

The Coin is right.