To msherman at projectile Even a good svideo cable should be fine for just 30ft. By good I mean something like Mogami (if I remember the name, the one imported from japan - others claim it's the best of all which is why I got it), which i'm told they've run 5 of the 50ft cables back to back and still had no visible signal loss. (and no I don't own stock or have anything to do the company :)
I don't know if i'd want to go that far but I run a single 50ft cable from the computer and there's absolutely no loss or interference that I can tell, better than the 12ft cable I had from b*st b*y initially. The audio is AC3 digital out of the sound card for which i'm using a cheap RCA cable since analog interference shouldn't matter for digital unless extreme. (although I do get an occasional digital signal dropout on the audio for unknown reason - but got that even with a higher quality 6ft connection originally so I dont think it's this cable) Whether there's any advantage using CAT5 or not I can't comment as I haven't tried it. I run a pair of USB extenders (each 16ft) under the carpet to a 4 port hub which gives me keyboard, mouse and game controller at about 36ft away from the computer. (this also keeps the computer fairly silent - just close the door :) You can theoretically chain 5 USB extenders back to back if I remember right, giving about 75-80ft before the hub, and that could potentially be a longer range wireless keyboard or at least IR remote up to 30ft or so. So this method should probably work fine for anyone wanting a computer up to around 100ft away. Much more than that and a separate frontend is probably essential. Note that the cost of extending everything 100ft may well be more than a cheap front end in some cases - at about $15 for each USB segment, plus 100ft of mogami cable, extra hub/kb/mouse, and you can probably get an Xbox for that price, or one of the Gateway ethernet connected divx playing DVD players. But I also play PC games so would do it this way anyway. (hmm, how about a Myth mode that encodes controller inputs to the backend and then mpeg2's a PC or game console output back for display, letting you play anywhere in the house from slower frontends like a C3? :) Or on-demand playing from a 400 disc DVD changer thru a hauppage card to any room.. Btw although there are no problems having two keyboard/mice hooked up to the same computer in win2000 I don't know about linux so someone else will have to say. But the computer is fully usable in both places under 2000 - a PS2 kb/mouse and normal monitor in the computer room, and the USB kb/mouse and TV acting as the second location. Colliepon
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