Re: [Avid-L2] Re:Dual DVI and USB extenders?

Yes I will never deal with Gefen again, they sent us a faulty cable
and never gave us a credit.

Ian Wilson
Colortape Productions
Ian@colortape.tv
0418 327 082
Via iPhone

On 29/10/2009, at 12:25 PM, "Mathew Sherman" <Mathew.Sherman@ctv.ca>
wrote:

> Effen Gefen.... funny. I'll start using that. We have the same
> experience. Products seem great, work fine and then don't for no rea
> son or don't work at all. One of our CAT5-7500 setups has been repla
> ced twice and still flakey. Monitors just turn off for no reason or
> don't come up when you boot up. And why use six cat five cables when
> you can do the same more reliably with Avocent over one "real TCP/I
> P" cable?
>
> Matt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Randall L. Rike
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:53 PM
> To: Avid-L2
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re:Dual DVI and USB extenders?
>
> We too are abandoning Effen Gefen for Avocent. We¹re also using the
> Avocent
> HMX Manager to allow more flexible connectivity.
>
> Randy
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>
> From: Tim Mangini <tim_mangini@wgbh.org>
> Reply-To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:45:03 -0400
> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Conversation: Re:Dual DVI and USB extenders?
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re:Dual DVI and USB extenders?
>
>
>
>
>
> Pat,
>
> We used Geffen extenders for our rooms with mixed success. The
> longer runs
> are problematic. Especially at the 1920 scan rate. Geffen laid
> blame on
> unshielded cat-5 cable. Our engineers said that was nonsense, just an
> excuse. We changed cabling to optical and that helped a bit. Now
> testing
> the Avocent line and that seems better. Likely changing over all
> six rooms
> if testing proves positive.
>
> See if you can run a test before you buy.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Tim Mangini
>
> "Anyone had any success with extending the dual displays and
> keyboard mouse
> away from the CPU?
> Looking at all the options I'm interested to see if anyones already
> found a
> solution.
> Basick idea of both DVI outputs upto potentially 1920X1200 res plus
> most
> likely USB for keyboard, mouse and tablet.
> Using CAT5 as the interconnect.
> Thanks"
>
>
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