How far can you extend keyboard, mouse, and monitor?

[BCinSC]

If PC is downstairs, can I run extensions upstairs. Not looking for Remote Control, but actual direct connect peripherals.

 

[sharkeeper]

Well I am on a ship in Russia and posting on a computer near Washington D.C. in the USA.

That's pretty damn far away.

Ok well RDP may not be the same thing but actual physical connections vary; I'd say 50 feet with no ancillary peripherals in between.

 

[BCinSC]

Physical PS/2 and VGA connections.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
Physical PS/2 and VGA connections.

Extensions most likely, but I think signal loss and strength will be issues the further away you get...

 

[imported_Kensai]

You can get extenders too which amplify the signal mid way through. That should get you pretty far if you buy a dozen.

 

[Tostada]

My brother has some KVM switches at work that use cat-5 for KVM extension. It doesn't actually use TCP/IP, so you can't run it through a network or anything like that, it just converts the monitor/etc. into a single RJ-45 jack at one end then back at the other end. Seems to work pretty well for relatively long distances to give you a hard connection to the server room (although it's probably not good for the full 100M of cat-5). It'd be a good excuse to wire your house for ethernet if you haven't already.

 

[BCinSC]

I could just see someone coming in and frying either my ethernet or my KVM by hooking up to wrong one.

 

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
I could just see someone coming in and frying either my ethernet or my KVM by hooking up to wrong one.

LOL

I doubt that would happen, but that'd be kinda funny. You switch the KVM and LAN jacks around and your monitor just makes a loud degaussing WnnnnnnOW and never comes on again.

 

[Tostada]

The whole VGA & PS/2 thing is getting pretty old. That would be great if someone would make a box that would transmit DVI/USB/1394 across cat-7. I would leave all my computers in a closet and just have a flat panel and a firewire DVD-RW on my desk.

Would Bluetooth work through the floor? You could get the Logitech desktop then just have nothing but a monitor extension if you did that.