Customer Reviews

StarTech 6in PS/2 Keyboard Mouse Splitter Cable Adapter (KYC1MF)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

What can you say? It's a Y cable that allows you to split your keyboard/mouse port on your laptop so you can connect both a keyboard and a mouse at the same time. I use it on my Compaq Evo N610c with no problems. Cheaper than a docking station and works great.

What more can I say? If you have a single PS/2 style connection on your PC or laptop and need to split them in order to connect a separate mouse and keyboard this is your adapter.

I tried to use this cable with my laptop's docking station, which had just 1 PS/2 port. I was connecting this to a KVM switch and found that only keyboard was recognized, but mouse did not work. After some serious web searching, I found a solution. Looks like they labeled the connectors incorrectly or probably the docking station has some pins reversed: just connect the mouse to the keyboard connector of the Y cable and connect the keyboard to the mouse connector of the Y cable. After this 'cross connection' both keyboard and mouse started working!

If you want to avoid USB, this is the thing to have to connect a mouse and keyboard to a single PS/2 port. Great for legacy notebooks with pre-USB operating systems. I'm surprised it isn't available from more manufacturers.

Initial review from others comments prompted my to buy it. Bad move on my part. It's pretty much useless and will occupy space in my junk drawer. Not even sure if it is worth trying to return. For the price, in the junk drawer.

I have an Asus motherboard that contains a "dual" function PS2 connector instead of a separate connector for the mouse and separate connector for the keyboard. This "splitter" will not work for that function. You need an "active" splitter that has some electronics in it to produce a pair of working connections. While the StarTech is made well, it is not suitable for this kind of application.

Doesn't work at all. I've tried this on 3 different computers that have the single PS/2 port, and none of them will recognize the mouse. Keyboard works fine in all cases, but no mouse.

Was unable to get it to work with my setup (Windows 7 [64-bit] / ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 M/B), but the item below USB version worked:
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It goes from PS/2 to USB though rather than PS/2 to PS/2, but I'm running OK with it.

I rated it a 2 because although it doesn't work for me, I got a full refund which was a breath of fresh air.

This item was wired incorrectly and as such damaged the ps2 input to my system. I notified the seller to no avail. Amazon informed me I'd recieve a refund for the cost of the cable, thanks Amazon. But I still have a damaged motherboard that was just purchased a few months ago.