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Jakobud:
You might as well give up now trying to do wireless video.  I have messed around a lot with sending wireless video signals and you should not expect a good picture from it.
ErikRuud:
A friend of mine is having his basement redone.

He is having a large plasma screen built into a wall that will be driven by a very high end PC.  The PC will function as the TV Tuner, DVR, MP3 player, DVD/CD player, etc.  

Instead of a seperate MAME cab, he would like to have a control panel that could be used from the couch.  A wireless USB setup might be idealfor this.
patrickl:

--- Quote from: bluGill on January 20, 2004, 03:35:29 pm ---VGA over ethernet might work, but odds are you will not like the results.

If you do VGA over IP and USB over IP, what decodes the IP on the other end?  Some sort of computer anyway.  Not to mention there is a limit to what you can do with cat 5, and I suspect the best results will still not be satisfactory.
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It's not video/usb over IP, but it just uses CAT 5 cables. A Cat 5 extender can be used to connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to a PC up to 150 meters away. It uses a CAT 5 cable and consists of (at least) 2 boxes. They work fine (especially at these low resolutions), allthough they cost a fortune. I guess somewhere around $400 (hav
temazur:
Would a wireless keyboard work thru the cab?  I'm going to give building one a go this summer, after I move (I'll have room for it in my new apat!  :) ) and was wondering if this would be a solution to the keyboard drawer?
NoOne=NBA=:

--- Quote from: temazur on February 15, 2004, 09:14:28 pm ---Would a wireless keyboard work thru the cab?

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It should work fine.
I use a wireless mouse all the time on mine.
Another alternative would be to sneak a USB hub in somewhere, so that you could plug a regular keyboard in.
I did that on my cabinet.
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