1 keyboard ps/2 >>> 2 different PCs - Will this work?

[Yo_D]

I've been searching for a way to use my keyboard on 2 different computers that are next to eachother at the same time. One is a laptop and the other is a desktop.

I used input director which does exactly what I wanted it to but not good enough. Sometimes it did not recognize keystrokes.


So I decided to take a hardware electronic kinda approach. There are plenty of splitters that connect multiple keyboard to one computer or a ps/2 mouse and a ps/2 keyboard into on ps/2 slot, I want to reverse this and create a splitter that connects from the ps/2 keyboard into the other two computer's ps/2 slots.

I read up on this idea and somewhere it said it would not work with USB since it is serial or something like that but it should work with ps/2.

Will this indeed work or will this just conclude into failure?

 

[Ubrales]

Use a switch.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=143&name=KVM-Switches

 

[Yo_D]

Will it allow me to use the keyboard at the same exact time or will it require it to be switched from one PC to another?

edit: with more googling I found what you were talking about I think

http://www.vetra.com/844text.html

That does exactly what I need to do but it costs way too much. 200 bucks isn't cheap when I'm trying to upgrade my GPU too

Any others you may know of? Thanks for the help so far dude!

 

[Ubrales]

The Newegg site I linked above has many choices for a lot less than $200.

http://www.newegg.com/store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=143&Tpk=KVM%20Switch

This one is $27 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817403063 (look at others and read the feedback too before you buy).

 

[Yo_D]

Well the one I linked is not a switch. A switch is used so multiple keyboards can connect to one PC. I am looking for the exact opposite. I want one keyboard connected to 2 different computers and be used at the same exact time without switching. A few names for this is called a broadcaster or multicaster but they are mainly used to multibox World of Warcraft accounts which I am not doing. I'm trying to play a different game with the same concept but it requires zero latency lag. It's a rhythm game kinda like Guitar Hero.

The only ones that can work seem to be highly expensive, 150+ dollars... I can use a soldering iron and attempt to make a splitter but I don't know if it is worth the trouble.

Is there something I am missing about the KVM switches? Can they all multicast/broadcast the same?