Advice about long computer cable runs please

[jonothon]

Moving my CPU's to a machine room to get quiet here in my control room. Would love some advice/links to long (25') keyboard/mouse/monitor cable extensions. I've got a Mac, a PC, and a Mackie D8B and HDR, so basically 3 PC's and a Mac.

Any performance differences between different products?

[sae]

why not wireless mouse and keyboard? If not you can get extentions for any of these things at radio shack

[rsb]

http://www.cyberguys.com/

Ryan

[jkrummri]

Get a 4 port KVM switch I don’t think they make a three port. And get a Cat 5 extender
You then take the video, mouse and keyboard out of PC ,Mac and db8 and if there is video out on your
HDR and go into the KVM inputs. Then take the video, mouse and keyboard out of the KVM into the Cat 5 extender then you will have one Cat 5 cable then carries your video, mouse and keyboard . Then hookup
the video, mouse and keyboard at the other end . You then can switch between your units usually with a hot key on your keyboard. You also have a video, mouse and keyboard output at the transmitting spot.
Hope this makes since and this is not very expensive to do

[jonothon]

Thanks everyone, for your suggestions. I ordered 3 30M kvm (keyboard.video/mouse) PC cables. Seems like that'll be fine. But the places I've called don't handle Macs. Any Mac cable extension links out there?

[echomancer]

I would imagine that your PC stuff is standard PS2 connectors while your Mac is USB for keyboard and mouse, which might prove difficult for interfacing to a KVM...