Just thought I'd follow up on some solutions I've found since a variant of this question seems to come up occasionally. http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=3811&sku=29505# Their Trulink system does it all for connectivity, wired and wireless. But very expensive per endpoint, over $700.
IOGear makes a wireless USB Hub ~$60, so I got the idea to connect one of my Kensington USB/VGA adapters to it, ~$60. They said you can't connect to multiple devices across hubs or VGA adapters but I tried it anyway and it works. Works very well hard wired, but if you don't have great wireless connection the Kensington driver will have issues trying to keep video in sync across multiple devices and fail miserably with one wired and one wireless. We have an old Cisco Aironet wireless infrastructure and I don't have great signal at my desk. Maybe when we get our Aruba system in I'll have better results with using wireless. I'm running it from a VM and network BW is averaging around 200k to run two monitors with slideshows that update every 5 sec. CPU is bouncing around 5-15%. Kensington says you can run 6 adapters from one PC. If I remember someone asked a while back about splitting an excel file across multiple TV's. This would work because the driver lets you decide where you want the monitors positioned (or mirrored) and how you want them rotated. Startech make an Ethernet to VGA adapter which is basically an Ethernet USB hub with the VGA adapter built in, ~$120. From the help file it looks like it uses the exact same configuration software as the Kensington USB/VGA adapter. I called their tech support to ask if it would "unofficially" support sending video to multiple devices. The tech I talked to was excellent. He confirmed it wasn't officially supported but that it would work and seem genuinely interested it what I was trying to accomplish. And he spoke English. So I'm going to test my setup with a couple of these also. ________________________________ From: N Parr Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 802.11 Wireless VGA Extension Can anyone point me to a product like this. I just don't have much experience with digital signage. Basically want a video switch where the remotes can be connected via standard Wi-Fi. I've found a lot of remote vga solutions but they all either use their own build it wireless or some type of physical connection. I'm wanting to distribute over the facility wireless network. I've checked out Avocent and some similar manufactures. Even thought of a wireless/Ethernet attached USB hub with a VGA adapter on it. Afraid I may have BW issues trying to move Video that way and I would have to put one at each remote and want to run multiple devices from a single PC. I can't find any that allow you to attach to devices across multiple hubs. In the end it may just be cheaper to use some cheap old micro pc's at each location but I would prefer to make it as solid state as possible because the environment they are in will kill anything with a fan pretty quick. I'm doing some kiosk type TV's now with old pc's on them running slideshows but this has the potential to be 20-30 more devices and I would really like it to be as centrally managed as possible. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
