Re: [Avid-L2] Extenders for z800s?

I gave up on the Gefen extenders. They required too much rebooting.
We have switched over to Avocent extender boxes. They are not cheap, and they are a bit of a pain to setup the first time. However, they are rock solid as far as doing their job. They just work. HMX 2050 and HMIQDHDD.
Here is one criticism of them though - if you have different editors who all want to swap USB input devices on them - they become a pain.
They support a generic keyboard and mouse fine - but if you have a Kensington trackball user, and a wacom pen user (and maybe a different model of wacom...) you have to go in to it with a terminal program (over a serial port) and manually add the item to the extender box.

Having said this - we only use 1 model of wacom, and if it's not connected it doesn't care. But when I have to swap it out for a trackball, I need to re-program the extender.

But, like I said - get past this original setup, and they are great. They just keep working like you'd expect them to. :)
Two monitors at 1920 X 1200, audio and USB over one ethernet cable.
I have no problems with the display port to DVI converter in this setup.

Jeff

On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Dave Spraker wrote:

> Ordered some new Gefen CAT5-5500HD extenders to go with new z800s but they
> really don't work with the display port to DVI converter.
>
> Anybody have a good working solution that they like.
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