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9V or 5V, does it really matter :-) Synergy was my first thought too, but you only got 1 mouse for 1 pc. That's not really what we wanted. Yeah, the thing with mouse-cursor emulation over network would be another way of doing it. in linux i created once an app that could move the mousecursor (with a scripting language). but i'm no good with windows (what's that anyway? some sort of dish? can i eat it? is it good?) But I take the idea under consideration. It would be nicer though if it could be possible with a cable and without software, so that i can take it to another person pc and use it, without installing any software. and it would be plattform independent.

well that's about it with the explaining: one mouse for 2 pc's :-) We've got the idea from a guy who played World of Warcraft with 5 characters at the same time. He didn't tell what specific Hardware he was using, but it was some dude who had a lot of money (as he said himself, dont' know if it's actually true :-) but considering you have to pay 5x an Account this could actually be true), so i'm guessing he had some fancy stuff. Our idea is something similar but we're just interested in the howto, less in the use-to. and for little money of course. So basically the idea is that we got 1 mouse and 2 pc's. We want that we can use the one mouse on both pc's simultaniously. Meaning: Both Mousecursors are at the same position, at every time. First we thought, we could use a wireless mouse with two receivers. But because we didn't have such mices (and we didn't want to buy those) we didn't try it. I think, that wouldn't have worked either. So we decided to try it with an usb mouse. the idea was simpel. we cut the cable in half (okay not directly in half, but i think you get the idea), and soldered 2 new cables at each of the little ones (GND,9V,Data-in and Data-out). At each end, we put everything in 2 male thingies.

Yeah, that's what i thought too. That's one of the reasons we want to try it with a reversed USB-Hub. But perhaps, there's another way to do so.

Hi there I don't know if this topic ever came up, or if it's sensless to ask, but me and my collegue are now some time studying if it's possible. We want to create a homemade splitted USB-cable. Meaning: 1 mouse for 2 pc's; owning at your favourite FPS :-) anyway, i think you get the idea. After some pleasent hours with our soldering iron (that was fun), we've got our cable. Done some testing. but it won't work. Only 1 of our PC's would recognize the mouse. After some recon in the allmighty net (jupp it's not just for porn) i found this page: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=242. The guy had the same problem. It's something about: WHoever sucks the electricity out of the cable get's the mouse. Our next plan is to invert an usb-hub with "cross-over"-cables and we hope that this will work (altough i think it won't). Now i ask, has someone tipps, a page or can the allmighty and genius wess help me :-) thx for helping