I recently purchased a Trendware TK-400K KVM switch to use with a few PC's in my basement.<BR><BR>One of those PC's is an _old_ Compaq serving as a Linux-based gateway for my LAN. The female VGA port ...

Yes a cable can be too long for video, 15', plus the 5-6' cable on the monitor itself is pretty much pushing it... -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com ...

A single cable that includes the keyboard, video and mouse cables. The KVM cable does not multiplex signals in any manner. It merely combines the three cables into one for less clutter. See KVM switch ...