Advice on a cheap KVM (i’ll buy some shirts). 3 monitor setup- 2x 1080 and a 1200, want to expense to work, 60hz at best.
the pricing is all over the place
You check the level 1 store?
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Define cheap.
What display adapter do you use? If you have displayport can you daisy chain the monitors so you only need one output or do you need multiple outputs.
All that said I use a startech SV431DPUA2. The rev 1 (SV431DPUA) will handle 3* 1080p 60 outputs with daisy chaining. That is $200 in my market, the version 2 is $300.
What port types?
that’s the part of cheap…
whatever works for the resolutions, can adapt to anything - going low grade business computer style.
Just thought someone would have a quick cheap go-to, don’t burn your time on it.
When it comes to KVM, you have kinda expensive, with cheap parts/firmware, then you have really expensive with decent parts/firmware. The only place to get the latter is at the Level1 store. I know I sound like a shill saying that, but there’s a reason Wendell sells them. Not because he thinks he’s gonna make it big on kvms. Because he’s found a product that doesn’t exist and he’s decided to fill that gap.
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Honestly Pretty sure Startech uses the same factory and is similar in almost all factors to L1Ts. Their price is very similar tho so I would generally order from L1 over them.
The keybinds are the same.
Housing the same, I’d be willing to be the internals are quite similar.
I know wendell didn’t have access to source code when he modified the firmware.
Thank you, I’d obviously go L1T if I thought I could squeeze it through purchasing, trying to low-ball a solution as a stop gap measure.
You could show them the blackbox KVMs and say “yeah, the L1 KVM is way more affordable”
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