{"id":1953,"date":"2016-08-09T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T12:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:03:40","slug":"usb-km-switch-for-sharing-keyboard-mouse-clipboard-and-transfer-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"USB KM switch for sharing Keyboard, Mouse, clipboard and transfer files"},"content":{"rendered":"

With this special USB cable, it is possible to use one Keyboard and Mouse to work with 2 computers (and with 2 screens). In addition, one can transfer files and share the clipboard.<\/p>\n

\nIn Wikipedia, it is called “Easy Transfer Cable<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

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The Easy Transfer Cable is a special USB 2.0<\/strong> cable used to connect two computers together.The connectors are both USB-A male connectors to connect to each PC, and the cable has a small box in the middle which contains the electronics needed to allow the computers to communicate with each other, and controls data flow between the two computers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The figure below is from a store showing the example of connecting 2 PCs together.<\/p>\n

\"USB-data-transfer-cable\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The file transfer and clipboard sharing can be especially usefull if those 2 computers are connected to different networks. The alternative software solutions might no work on those situations.<\/p>\n

File transfer speed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Testing the transfer speed by doing simple “copy-paste” of one file of 1.8GB. It took less than 2 minutes. (Both computers do have SSD).<\/p>\n

Other names<\/strong><\/p>\n

One can try to find it with names like “USB data link cable”, “USB KM switch”, “USB PC Link Cable”, “USB networking cable” or “USB 2.0 bridge cable”.<\/p>\n

Comes with some Risks<\/strong><\/p>\n