If you're looking at only 30 feet (as your links suggested) why not blue tooth your KB and Mouse? Then just worry about your long video cable. Andy Schmid wrote: > 3. VNC is utterly slow in comparison to console access > > 4. VNC won't work if the system/network is broken > > > Carl, > > I know this is probably overkill and out of the price range, but an > IP-KVM would work perfectly if you can't get long enough cables. > > -Andy > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom > <chrome at real-time.com <mailto:chrome at real-time.com>> wrote: > > On 03/04 08:51 , Justin Vogt wrote: > > Why not just use VNC? > > 1. Because that still requires a computer near me, with the > attendant noise and > cooling issues. (I'm hoping to put the computers in a cool room in the > basement to reduce my A/C requirements in the summertime). > > 2. Because it's cheaper to move the computers to another room and > buy long > cables, than buy newer, quieter computers. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com <http://www.real-time.com> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >