ATEN US-221, US-421 User Manual

User Manual

US-221 US-421

Read this guide thoroughly and follow the installation and operation procedures carefully in order to prevent any damage to the units and/ or any devices that connect to them.

This package contains:

 1 US-221 or US-421 USB 2.0 Peripheral Switch  1 USB Cable  1 CD (software)  1 User Manual

If anything is damaged or missing, contact your dealer. Copyright

Manual Part No. PAPE-1245-101G Printing Date: 03/2006

International Co., Ltd.

Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

 Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna;  Increase the separation between the equipment and

receiver;

 Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit

different from that which the receiver is connected;

 Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television

technician for help.

This product is RoHS compliant.

System Requirements

 A USB Host Controller installed on the computer  An OS that supports the USB specification  Win98 SE or higher for optional switch program and hotkey

options

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Overview

The US-221 / US-421 is a two (US-221) / four (US-421) port USB

2.0 Switch that allows up to two / four computers to share the use of a single USB peripheral device (such as a printer, scanner, modem, etc.) on a one-at-a-time basis.

The peripheral focus can be given to a computer manually, with hotkeys, or a Windows

based program.

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Features

 USB 2.0 compliant  Fully backward compatible with USB 1.0 and USB 1.1  Bus powered - no external power supply necessary  Up to two (US-221) or four (US-421) computers can share a

single USB device

 Supports transfer rates of 1.5/12/480 Mbps  Plug & Play  Hot pluggable - USB devices can be plugged and removed

without having to reset the system

 LED status indicators  Hotkey (Windows OS only) or manual switching for easy

computer selection

 Overcurrent protection  Beeper confirmation when switching  Windows based program for easy status monitoring/switching  Simple to install - No driver needed

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