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Patch panels for USB and Video

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So I am moving my boxen to a single room soon and want to get a setup where I only need one mouse, keyboard and monitor. I do not want to have to plug them directly into each boxen when I am troubleshooting them so I am in need of some sort of patch panel. I'm thinking I will need two patch panels.

USB patch panel. Ideally I'd like to use one USB cable from the boxen to the patch panel with 2 ports per boxen. So it sort of "Y" splits at the panel. This way I only need one USB cable to go from the patch panel to the boxen, but have two ports for the USB and Mouse.

DVI and/or VGA patch panel. Here it's a bit tricky. All but two of my setups can use VGA. One of DVD-D and I can't use a normal DVI-I > VGA adapter on them without buying the expensive active adapters. So I am thinking of having a VGA patch panel for the boxen that can use VGA and a DVI patch panel for the boxen that are DVI only.

I want to mount this on a table near where I will have everything setup. Ideally I'd like to have at least 16 ports on each (32 for the USB)

I'm not worried about having any kind of built in switch electrical or manual as I am okay with plugging them into the desired port when necessary. I feel having a built in switch would just add to the cost.
 
Kvm switches sound like they would be ideal and come in USB flavours so that shouldn't be an issue, you should also be able to get the with either DVi or vga connections. These are not cheap pieces of kit when you start adding lots of ports though
 
Yeah, a KVM switch is exactly what I want. Its spending that much money on one with enough ports to accommodate my needs that I have a problem with.

I just need a panel with female/female connectors attached to it. One with 1/1 VGA, one with 1/1 DVI and one with 1/2 USB. Backside/Front side

I can manually disconnect and connect to the desired ports if they're all right next to each other.
 
Damn. I didn't expect them to cost that much!
 
Yeah I just found that out today. I asked on Amazon if any cables were included and they are not.

https://www.amazon.com/forum/-/Tx2HOMZ7FI0JKBB/-/ref=ask_dp_lsw_al_hza?asin=B000P03EO4

At $10 a pop though it's still not that bad of a deal. Seeing as how the KVM will cost the same price as just a USB patch panel (the one linked above) and I still need to get USB cables for those which will add to the cost even more. Then I gotta do something about the video still.
 
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