[CALUG] Looking for hardware

[loxety]

Hey Jason,

What kind of distance are we talking about here?


On Nov 13, 2007 9:14 AM, 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?
>
>                                         ~j
>
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