SECURELINX SPIDER SLS200 1 PORT CABLE LENGTH OF 21IN PS2

I purchased a used model last April at half the new price. Primarily I wanted to use a laptop as a portable KVM to install and configure headless servers. Using Ethernet and a local web browser, it is platform agnostic and suits our non-Microsoft work environment. I have also mailed the device to a remote office, where it was connected to a workstation with a broken network configuration (by the regular office user). This enabled a remote repair and saved travel and hotel costs.The main downside had been the long deprecated (insecure) SSL used by Lantronix, which involved us resurrecting an obsolete OS version. However the December 2018 firmware update addresses that major inconvenience.Purchasers will probably also want a USB toRJ45 console cable (as used with Cisco kit) for device configuration. I bought item B01NGYKRCS from Amazon. I would advise downloading the Spiders User Guide from Lantronix before purchase.The (optional) external power is via a USB mini-B socket, so can use a mobile phone charger.

I must admit to having bought this device for a good £50 cheaper off e-bay (new) - however, as I found it here originally, I figure others may stumble this way too, and thus a review here might be well placed.This device is superb - for what I want it to do - there is a major caveat here, which is that it doesn't work well at a BIOS level ( or at least it didn't for me ) - my reason for purchase is sheer laziness, not wanting to run upstairs to constantly check to see if there is activity on a specific system that is VPN'd into somewhere else ( so no chance of running VNC or anything ) - to that end, it is excellent - it is simple enough to configure ( infact, it auto-configures - which the instructions don't tell you - so you may end up searching for a machine that still has a serial port, or a USB to Serial converter ( that would be me ... ) and a HyperTerm replacement for Win 8 ( TeraTerm for the record ) - just to find that the thing has already allocated itself an IP address... )Once up and running though, it does what it says on the tin, and I am happily sharing out the screen, at a far higher resolution than the laptop itself has, across the network, allowing me to be comfortably able to check it from downstairs during the evening rather than having to periodically go up two flights ...Provided you can live with the limitation, there is no reason that this couldn't be an affordable solution to all of your problems !