Remote PC
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I am getting a load of work done on the house and I've had an idea (at this point people get nervous, don't know why). It would be nice if the PC wasn't in the living room (noise and esthetics) so I would like the mouse, keyboard, both monitors (each DVI) and maybe USB/audio that can be 15 metres away. Does anyone know of a suitable product that doesn't cost the earth? Thanks. Elaine :rose:
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How about a wide/large screen laptop? Almost no noise, not tethered to the desktop in another room, no large cables around the place...
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How about a wide/large screen laptop? Almost no noise, not tethered to the desktop in another room, no large cables around the place...
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A lowend system with a via/mobile CPU and RDP to the main system? You can get stuff in the same form factor as the mac mini, but significantly cheaper. :cool:
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I am getting a load of work done on the house and I've had an idea (at this point people get nervous, don't know why). It would be nice if the PC wasn't in the living room (noise and esthetics) so I would like the mouse, keyboard, both monitors (each DVI) and maybe USB/audio that can be 15 metres away. Does anyone know of a suitable product that doesn't cost the earth? Thanks. Elaine :rose:
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Sounds pretty straightforward. If the direct connection doesn't work out for you, RDP probably will. My dev box doesn't actually have a keyboard/monitor/mouse...I remote to it (across multiple monitors if available) from one of the other machines in the house. :)
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John M. Drescher wrote:
remote desktop is still too slow
That sounds like your network, not remote desktop. I regularly use RDP to a remote XP machine over a 1MB domestic (and hence contended) DSL line, and for text-based operations (coding, email etc) it's absolutely fine. Sure, detailed graphics editing is a bit painful, but coding, general document editing etc are just fine.
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
That sounds like your network
Its definitely not the network file transfers are over 50MB/s with large files. I did not say it was not usable just that any lag on basic operations I find to annoying to use for more than a few minutes. I guess my point is I would not use this method for more than a few minutes if the pc I was logging connecting to was in the same building. Now if it was miles away, it would be acceptable as long as I am doing mostly text based operations.
John
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I am getting a load of work done on the house and I've had an idea (at this point people get nervous, don't know why). It would be nice if the PC wasn't in the living room (noise and esthetics) so I would like the mouse, keyboard, both monitors (each DVI) and maybe USB/audio that can be 15 metres away. Does anyone know of a suitable product that doesn't cost the earth? Thanks. Elaine :rose:
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laptop......
Todd Smith
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laptop......
Todd Smith
Hard to replicate two 19" monitors on a laptop. :) /ravi
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Hard to replicate two 19" monitors on a laptop. :) /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Hard to replicate two 19" monitors on a laptop
But it should be possible to just connect them to the laptop, of course it has to support it, but since we're talking of a hypothetical laptop which wasn't bought yet... ;) I don't know if it would cost the Earth, though.
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I am getting a load of work done on the house and I've had an idea (at this point people get nervous, don't know why). It would be nice if the PC wasn't in the living room (noise and esthetics) so I would like the mouse, keyboard, both monitors (each DVI) and maybe USB/audio that can be 15 metres away. Does anyone know of a suitable product that doesn't cost the earth? Thanks. Elaine :rose:
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There are devices caled KVM-extender, that allow a Keyboard, Video and Mouse (therefore stands KVM) to be extended with a Cat-5 Cable. Find an example under http://www.minicom.com/[^] under 'KVM-Solutions'. You probalbly need to use two systems, one for each monitor. We use many of such systems in a Video-production gallery, to keep the noise level down, and have the computers in a machine room. They work very well. Didi
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I am getting a load of work done on the house and I've had an idea (at this point people get nervous, don't know why). It would be nice if the PC wasn't in the living room (noise and esthetics) so I would like the mouse, keyboard, both monitors (each DVI) and maybe USB/audio that can be 15 metres away. Does anyone know of a suitable product that doesn't cost the earth? Thanks. Elaine :rose:
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Hard to replicate two 19" monitors on a laptop. :) /ravi
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Hard to replicate two 19" monitors on a laptop. :) /ravi
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Graham Bradshaw wrote:
That sounds like your network
Its definitely not the network file transfers are over 50MB/s with large files. I did not say it was not usable just that any lag on basic operations I find to annoying to use for more than a few minutes. I guess my point is I would not use this method for more than a few minutes if the pc I was logging connecting to was in the same building. Now if it was miles away, it would be acceptable as long as I am doing mostly text based operations.
John
Have you tried changing the 'Experience' options? I can see if you have all the graphics options turned on, it might be a bit slow. I always set it to "56K modem", even using the Gigabit ethernet connections in the office.
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Sounds pretty straightforward. If the direct connection doesn't work out for you, RDP probably will. My dev box doesn't actually have a keyboard/monitor/mouse...I remote to it (across multiple monitors if available) from one of the other machines in the house. :)
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You're wrong... Use RDP version 6 and use the /span-option from the command line.. That way, the RDP-session gets stretched to all your monitors. You can even set a fixed width and height, but I cannot remember what the options are for this. Should be in a help-file somewhere on the microsoft-site... (or in the release-notes for the RDP6-client)...
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I'm rewiring the hosue soon, seeing what options there are. It looks like four Cat5e cable will allow the PC or two DVI extenders plus USB and uadio if required.
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It might be worth considering Cat6 these days; it really depends on whether you are likely to wantthe extra bandwidth later on.
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You're wrong... Use RDP version 6 and use the /span-option from the command line.. That way, the RDP-session gets stretched to all your monitors. You can even set a fixed width and height, but I cannot remember what the options are for this. Should be in a help-file somewhere on the microsoft-site... (or in the release-notes for the RDP6-client)...
ahhh - thank you - I've been looking for this for years. It only works when connecting to vista or 2008 though, so I'm still stuck when remoting to xp (could this finally be a reason to upgrade my dev machine to vista?) Work would still have to upgrade their citrix servers to rdp 6, or allow a TS Gateway to accept connections through the corporate firewall, for it to be any use when remoting in to work. Oh well, I can always dream...
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ahhh - thank you - I've been looking for this for years. It only works when connecting to vista or 2008 though, so I'm still stuck when remoting to xp (could this finally be a reason to upgrade my dev machine to vista?) Work would still have to upgrade their citrix servers to rdp 6, or allow a TS Gateway to accept connections through the corporate firewall, for it to be any use when remoting in to work. Oh well, I can always dream...
Believe me it also works remoting to XP - that's how I'm typing this. :)
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Have you tried changing the 'Experience' options? I can see if you have all the graphics options turned on, it might be a bit slow. I always set it to "56K modem", even using the Gigabit ethernet connections in the office.
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Yes, there must be a reason for the lag (the lag that shouldn't be) as I RDP a lot from one home computer to another, on a 100 Mbit/sec LAN and don't have problems.
My guess would be that there's some traffic prioritisation or QoS processing going on, and RDP is losing out to other, "more important" traffic.