Posted by Howard Casto on February 24, 2002 at 13:24:52:
In Reply to: Splicing Cat 5 cable into keyboard cable? posted by enemyace on February 24, 2002 at 11:23:20:
It would work in theory, but if it's a farily long distance your going to want to add a signal booster to the keyboard. I don't know of any good ones off hand, but they are farily easy to get ahold of. Check tigeridrect.com for keyboard extenders and see ewaht you come up with. Also be aware that response time is gonna be degredated, so it'll have a slightly slower feel than if you played it right next to your pc.
: Would it be possible to send all the correct signals for a keyboard through one or two cat 5 cables? I'm thinking about how I could set up a keyboard and control box for You Don't Know Jack in the living room that would connect to the computer downstairs in the basement. I'm probably going to wire the house for network cable anyway, so I could use cat 5 plugs in the wall to hook up all the controls. The cable would run through the walls into a patch panel, and a cable with a cat 5 plug on one end and a ps/2 plug on the other would take the signal to the computer. The video would be taken care of by sending my s-video out through an rf modulator into the cable wiring in the walls up to the tv. So would the cat 5 work for the keyboard? If not, does anyone have any ideas for using controllers in another room like this? Wireless maybe?
: Thanks,
: EA