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There are full software solutions that just show the screen over the network and relay your mouse/keyboard to whichever machine is on focus.

It worked well enough that I'd forget which pc the kvm s were actually connected to. But I was only programming, not gaming, so maybe the 60Hz would be a problem. no hurt to try. It was free and there were a couple software solutions.

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The latency would probably make it a shitty experience. I got a displayport switch when I started working from home this year and the thing works so well I forget it exists. There is no latency at all and it automatically switches inputs based on which one is active so I never have to touch the thing.

Why?

At 60dps that is one frame every 16.7ms.

Sub-ms latency is easy on a local network. Heck I can get a few states away and back in 16ms.

its not really about network latency at that level. you need to acquire screen contents and render them too. if you try to send signals uncompressed bandwidth (pps) could be a problem too in that time frame. if you compress it you introduce additional latency on capture and rendering times... i have yet to see this working over an ethernet network...

There's encode and decode latency as well, but I've been able to get the total latency to a data center about 200km from me to around 30ms or so with some solutions. Was good enough for some non-competitive gaming for me.

There are many keyboard mouse solutions like this, but I have not found a software including video. If you remember, can you point me at them?

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