When I returned to Maui this year I decided to update my office a bit. While I was in Hood River I went through and duplicated my office setup with a second monitor and all the office amenities. HR tends to be my home away from home, so I’ve been leaving it light, but I realized finally that it’s a good idea to have a comfortable office setup no matter what.

Anyway, when I got back here to Maui I figured I ought to update my office here and clean up alittle. My home office is pretty small and there are 3 monitors and 2 keyboards wrapped around a small desk area. So I decided to ditch the existing smaller monitors, buy a new bigger one for a second monitor for the notebook and my primary machine main monitor.

I decided to get a KeyBoard/Mouse/Monitor switch along with the monitor and I figured things would clean up nicely – and it did. The office is much more open and a much more ‘peaceful’ place to sit for hours <g>…

But – there always has to be a but of course – the KVM switch doesn’t work quite right. It’s maddening because it works, but it has little quirks. It’s a DLINK KDKVM-2 and the mouse works but it won’t always click when you click. Or sort of half click. The keyboard too – it sometimes doubles up characters or skips a character. It’s fairly random which is really bad.

Ok, so I call tech support – in India – it sounds like. They are trying to be helpful. But in the end I get this fabulous answer:

We know these switches don’t always work. There’s nothing to fix or adjust so if it doesn’t work take it back to where you bought it.

Wow! How’s that for honesty? <g> Remind me to not buy anything else from D-Link.

Ok... now I need to figure out how to get a switch that does actually work with my setup. Any recommendations?

My set up is:

Dell Inspiron 8500

MS IntelliMouse

Microsoft Natural Keyboard

and a generic home built server box with an older (2 year old) Intel chipset.