[CALUG] Looking for hardware

[John Szakmeister]

----- "Jason C. Miller" <jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all.  I'm wanting to know if there's a piece of hardware out
> there
> that matches the following description...
> 
> I'm looking for something that can extend the distance between a PC's
> chassis and it's peripherals (ie. keyboard, mouse, monitor).  So,
> instead of plugging in a monitor/mouse/keyboard into the chassis
> itself, you'd plug it into some significantly smaller device which
> would have some kind of trunk line back to the chassis somewhere else
> in the room.
> 
> It's rather like a KVM in that you don't plug the usual things into
> the chassis.  I'm looking for something that simply extends
> range...not allows KVM functionality.
> 
> I'm currently using an Avocent AMX5120 unit on my desk at work.  It
> does the job nicely, but it's one of those things that was built for
> a
> completely different (and much larger) purpose and costs $1500 a pop.
> 
> I've tried simple cable extenders in the past, but that has proven to
> be unreliable at best.
> 
> Any ideas?

We have a StarTech remote KVM.  It's still pricey (600-700 a pop), but it works pretty well.  The model number is SV1115IPEXT.

-John