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(More customer reviews)Just got one of these to replace an unreliable old IOGear CS1764 that was Single Link, had only USB 1.1 support, like to 'hang' occasionally (usually at the worst possible times), and had no "USB memory".
The Belkin was less than half the price of a comparable new IOGear/ATEN unit and works flawlessly so far. This was really one of those "feel good" purchases where you wonder if the product is going to be any good based on being less than half the price of the cheapest alternative. When you get it and it really works, you get one of those "boy, did I find a good deal" feelings. This really is a steal at the price.
I like the fact that the DVI/USB and the Audio cables are physically separate. I have no use for the audio switching.
My only nit (and I'm extremely picky) is that the User Manual doesn't tell you how to mute the "beep" that the unit makes when you switch between systems using the Hotkey sequence. My old IOGear CS1764 could do this via a hotkey configuration sequence. I'm in a sound-critical environment and I need to do this. I'll change my rating to 5 stars when Belkin Support tells me how to mute the beep (I have a support e-mail in).
One thing to be aware of is that the included cables are Dual Link DVI (duh!). If you have any systems that don't have Dual Link DVI output (I have an old iMac that only has a Single Link DVI out), you're going to need an adapter for those systems. Dual Link cables can't plug into Single Link sockets because the Dual Link cables have extra pins that the Single Link sockets don't have holes for. Fortunately I have the Single Link DVI cables from my old IOGear that I could reuse for this one system.
----- 5 STARS! (why won't Amazon let me update the star rating?)
OK, I figured out how to enable/disable the beep. It's [Hotkey] + [Hotkey] + B
Interestingly enough, this KVM advertises itself on USB as a "Combo Free KVM" with a USB OEM Vendor ID of 0x10d5 (Uni Class Technology Co., Ltd). [...] - This showed some addition configuration key sequences available. The two from this list that I found that work are Enable/Disable Beep and Auto Scan.
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