500-foot KVM/line extender system ...

ist.martin · Post by **ist.martin** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:30 pm

I was reading a musicians discussion on home studios, and came across this:

http://www.kvms.com/products/SV560UTP.asp

It is a KVM switch that allows you to locate the box up to 500 feet away from the monitor! It uses ethernet patch cables between their 2 switches at either end.

Quite an interesting idea, with potential use for PC silencers - particularly those who have CAT5 wired homes!

Anyone know if it works? Latency? Reliability?

kittle · Post by **kittle** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:27 pm

very nice concept.

one big problem i see:
Features:
Consists of 1 Local unit for the local display, and 1 Remote unit for the remote display.
Uses standard Category 5 straight-through wired UTP patch cable.
Two consoles can be connected to share control of a PC (1 local, 1 remote).
High quality video resolution of up to 1024x768

who still runs at that resolution nowdays?

and for me - both my monitors plug into the DVI ports on my video card, this thing is analog only.

But for workstations in a PC unfriendly environment, it would work great.

WR304 · Post by **WR304** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:05 pm

If you want higher resolution over Cat 5/6 cables you can get KVM extenders such as these Adder ones:

http://www.kvmswitchdirect.co.uk/adderlink_x_series.htm

http://www.kvmswitchdirect.co.uk/acatal ... nders.html

They appear to support up to 1600*1280 over a Cat5/6 cable.

jessekopelman · Post by **jessekopelman** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:57 pm

At the price, Â£264.50 + VAT, you'd probably be better off running VNC with a low end PC as your terminal. That configuration has the advantage of supporting WiFi rather than requiring physical end-to-end cabling.

protellect · Post by **protellect** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:03 pm

Gefen has some cool stuff, even over fiber optics, so you could do it for miles [at quite a price..]