j5create JUC500 Data, Keyboard, and Mouse Sharing/Transfer USB 3.0 Cable Transfer Data Between Mac and Windows [Wormhole Switch]

I know there are some kinks in this setup, however for last 7 years this is the only thing that has worked for me. I work across machines that are on separate VPN and there is nothing else that has worked for me.I have used both USB 2.0 and 3.0. Below are few suggestions, please add yours in comments or provide link to them in comments.- Do not run directly from mounted CD drive copy to folder or go online and get latest version and run from HD/NVMe. You may disable auto play for it all together.- Run as administrator.- Make sure to plug in USB 3.0 port and avoid USB hub for troubleshooting.- Turn off/Kill Logitech flow or similar programs that alter mouse/keyboard behavior for troubleshooting.

The idea of this product (JUC500) is neat and if it totally worked, would be great. I tried tethering a Win 10 & Win 11 machine together. I was able to initially control both systems, from either system, and found changing the Keyboard/Mouse setting via the default HotKey (Alt-S) in Preferences to be a better method than running the cursor off the edge of the screen to hop between systems. I initially I was able to copy some folders of files between systems and the transfer speed was very good. It took a day or two before I started getting disconnect/reconnect messages on the Win10 system. I reached out to support and it took a week to get a response saying there are multiple, known issues, regarding to use with Windows 10. It appears that Win11 to Win11 is fine and I have not tried with anything earlier than Win10 so I cannot help there. Support did recommend using the JUC462 unit if you want USB3 AND Windows 10... I have ordered that unit which is about $30 more but also *supposedly* offers Monitor sharing and PIP (Picture in picture) support to view the remote screen on the system you are running from. That could be the ticket for the $30 increase and worth it if the two system are not next to each other where you can view both monitors. Proceed with caution, however to copy from a Win 11 Desktop to Win 11 notebook, it could be a real lifesaver, just do not plan to use with Win 10 !!

Excellent product. The first thing I did before jumping into anything was upgrade the firmware on the "switch" side of the USB adapter, which btw took about 5 minutes. The adapter itself has a read-only drive where the "Wormhole Switch" application software was located. Once I've had the firmware updated and drivers installed on both computers, it operated smooth as butter from there. The KVM part worked flawlessly.My setup for the transfer speed test.Computer 1------------------CPU: AMD FX-8350RAM: 16GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAMHDD: Sandisk X110 256GB SSD.Data ports: USB 3.0 Super Speed (dark blue colored, if it's not blue it's not USB 3.0)Data bridge device: USB 3.0 Wormhole Switch Cable JUC500.Operating System: Windows 7 Professional x64.Computer 2 - Dell Inpsiron 15R Special Edition LaptopCPU: Core i7-3632QMRAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MhzHDD: Samsung 850 PRO 256GB SSD.Operating System: Windows 7 Profession x64.File size: Generated a 10GB Truecrypt dummy file.Method of transfer: File Shuttle program and Drag and Desktop drag-and-drop.File transfer speed average: 123MB/s (984 megabits per second)Peak transfer speed: 192MB/s (1.53 gigabits per second)Total time to transfer a 10GB file: 81 secondsOverall I'm very satisfied! The file transfer speed easily tops my 1 gigabit Ethernet connection, which tops out at around 100-112MB/s (800-900 megabits per second). If you did everything correctly i.e. updated firmware for windows 7/8.1/10, then installed drivers on both computers, then you won't have any problems. As for MACs I have no idea, y'all are on your own. If you want top speeds via USB 3.0 protocol, you need to have SSDs on both computers. Spindle hard drives top out at 75MB/s (600 megabits per second) after its built-in disk cache has been saturated, so don't let the fast initial speed fool you on hard disk drives. If you want top speed USB 3.0, get SSDs.================================================================================================Update: November 16, 2015.I noticed that in Windows 7 Professional x64 the drivers created an "MCT 7500 NDIS 6.0" miniport connection at 5Gbps which came with an IP address. I didn't like the preconfigured IP address so I manually changed the IP addresses from the PC and Laptop to 192.168.137.2 and 192.168.137.1, respectively. I pinged the other computer from my PC using command prompt and got <1ms pings, and yes, I disabled my LAN connection making sure that the ping was ONLY going through the USB 3.0 NDIS emulated ports/bridge. I even went a step further and shared the gigabit LAN connection to the internet via ICS on the Laptop side with it's USB 3.0 that's directly connected to my PC and now I have internet connection. As for throughput, I still got around 157.8MB/s (1.233Gbit/s), which is still way better than my gigabit ethernet connection.================================================================================================Update: November 28, 2015.I seem to get consistent 150-161MByte/s (1,200-1,300Mbit/s) thoughput between two host computers with SSDs. Both of my computers have SSDs capable of 400+MB/s speed according to Crystal Mark 5.0.2 x64 bit edition. I wonder if get another JUC500 and perform an LACP-like bonded connection I'd get (in theory) 300-400MB/s (2,400-3,200Mbit/s), which would put me about 48-64% of the total bandwidth that USB 3.0 has to offer at 5,000Mbit/s (4,800Mbit/s with overhead).

I have spent months looking for a better option so I could replace a VKVM (virtual keyboard and mouse). I have two systems setting side-by-side but running two different OS’s. First problem was the included software didn’t automatically support the current OS of either system (Windows 10 pro 64-bit and Mac OS 10.15) and the software doesn’t have an auto update feature. A quick look on their website you will find the latest versions. The installation isn’t complex but very unintuitive with plugging and unplugging half the cable to update. After all of this I quickly discovered that these products speed isn’t even close to a free VKVM running across a wireless connection. By the way the software doesn’t not have a clean method of uninstalling the software. Still not sure why a USB 4.0 cable isn’t faster than a wireless connection passing thru two routers. If I get tired of the quirkinesses of the KVM software I’ll end up buying or building a real hardware device

I am satisfied with the item that I purchased.

Critical: you must have admin rights on the two machines you are connecting this to.I do not know why, there are also a lot of notifications caused by this and the software splash screen pops up from time to time. I turned off the notifications to remove the aggressive sound.Otherwise it works fine.Note: you can copy files or folder between the 2 machines using a « file shuttle » interface (a kind of simplified File Explorer. No drag and drop between the machines. But it works fine.