Bridgeview 2-Port USB/DVI KVM Switch With Audio Review :: Setup And Usage

• KVM Switch
• User’s manual
• Computer cable

The packaging that the KVM switch came in was a plastic bubble wrap package that was not too hard to open up. The KVM switch came with a User’s manual which described where to attach each device, the cable to which the computers are attached and the KVM switch itself. One thing to note is that there are USB connections to each computer and the KVM switch is self-powered by the USB port, so attach them to your computers or it the switch will not work.

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cable

The KVM switch is nothing without an easy to use interface. After all, if you have to reach around the corner to use the switch it almost defeats the purpose of the switch in the first place. Just attach the monitor cable to the KVM switch, the DVI-I connectors to the video cards on each computer, the audio cables to the audio jacks and the USB cables to the USB ports. At this point it should fit into place.

Attaching the monitor USB Keyboard and USB Mouse to the KVM Switch is intuitive to anyone that has built a computer. After attaching the audio cables, I was ready to go with powering on both of the computers. Turning on two computers in the lab, the switch worked right out of the box. Normally there isn’t a driver to use a KVM switch and there isn’t one here unless you are using Windows 98, which I highly doubt anyone is still using at this time point. I was able to use both my Mac and my PC at the same time and also route the sound through my monitor speakers for the MAC system. There were absolutely no problems encountered here of any type it was just a simple matter of attaching the cables to the different systems and I was up and going in no time at all.