Maybe some of us have the carbon tub of an ex championship winning F1 car in our gaming room, but I suspect not. I doubt we've got the full force feedback multi-monitor gaming "rig" that many of our PC brethren have, no - I suspect that many of you are in the same space as me, a gaming set-up that's at best a dedicated seat and monitor and more likely if you were to describe your gaming pit as a car interior it would be velour interior & bench seat of a mid-western old GMC pick-up, or a couch as we call it.
Anyway, like a few of us I have a PS3 and a PS4, and funds for one wheel, a G29. What's more with the two systems I have a USB keyboard and had bluetooth headset for one and the PS4 cheapo single line earpiece for another. All in all more wires snaked across the living room than a mad scientists laboratory.
But I’ve solved it I think!
Behold, a USB four into two switch box:
What’s good about this, pretty much everything actually…
With this, I have four USB ports available, that with the push of a button on a long cable switches between two sources (four if you go large). And so, now I don’t have to be pulling cables out left and right to switch consoles, I’ve plugged in my steering wheel, keyboard receiver and now a USB cabled headset to the box. And now I can flick between PS3 and PS4 with ease, and no risk of damaging plugs.
Personally I can’t tell of any delay caused by using this, I’m just as bad at racing now as I was, so for now it’ll stay.
Of minor note, the other thing I did was get some cable tidy stuff like this:
And with this the plethora of cables coming out of the steering wheel are kept nice and tidy and away from my legs. All up less mess, and a lot less cable management as I switch between consoles...
Anyway, like a few of us I have a PS3 and a PS4, and funds for one wheel, a G29. What's more with the two systems I have a USB keyboard and had bluetooth headset for one and the PS4 cheapo single line earpiece for another. All in all more wires snaked across the living room than a mad scientists laboratory.
But I’ve solved it I think!
Behold, a USB four into two switch box:
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| Aten 2 Port USB Peripheral Sharing Device |
What’s good about this, pretty much everything actually…
With this, I have four USB ports available, that with the push of a button on a long cable switches between two sources (four if you go large). And so, now I don’t have to be pulling cables out left and right to switch consoles, I’ve plugged in my steering wheel, keyboard receiver and now a USB cabled headset to the box. And now I can flick between PS3 and PS4 with ease, and no risk of damaging plugs.
Personally I can’t tell of any delay caused by using this, I’m just as bad at racing now as I was, so for now it’ll stay.
Of minor note, the other thing I did was get some cable tidy stuff like this:
And with this the plethora of cables coming out of the steering wheel are kept nice and tidy and away from my legs. All up less mess, and a lot less cable management as I switch between consoles...
