[CALUG] Looking for hardware

[Jason C. Miller]

If it's a wired solution and I'm assuming that everything will be in
the same room, then 15-20 ft.  However, that doesn't mean that the
chassis and the K/V/M peripherals will be that far apart since the
cable would be wrapping around the room.

                             ~j

On Nov 13, 2007 11:07 AM, loxety <loxety at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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