Cat 5 to USB Extender?

October 5th, 2009 | by Joe |

I have a VGA and USB Wallplate connection behind my TV and in other locations in the house. This is to allow me to use my PC (which is located in another room) as a monitor and home entertainment purposes throughout the house. The VGA is working no problems there but the USB is not. With no way of accessing the cable for the USB i know have to look at what is left which is the Cat 5 cable also at each point. I noticed that you can buy Cat 5 to USB extenders and i am wondering if they are any good.
You can buy a USB extender which does work well, but do beware of the length you’re running the cable. You will be losing data integrity during conversion, but I am pretty sure USB can only send signal so far…

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  1. 3 Responses to “Cat 5 to USB Extender?”

  2. By ELfaGeek on Oct 5, 2009 | Reply

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  3. By Blake K on Oct 5, 2009 | Reply

    You can buy a USB extender which does work well, but do beware of the length you’re running the cable. You will be losing data integrity during conversion, but I am pretty sure USB can only send signal so far…
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  4. By patabugen on Oct 5, 2009 | Reply

    USB can happily go a good few meters, I believe the specification says 5m. However, I have one which is about 8m long which i use to print over and it works fine.

    You can go further, but you can’t simply extend the cable (Well you can try, and it might well work =) but your not ment to) You could use something like this:
    http://www.usbwholesale.com/active%20repeater.htm
    which you should be able to put end to end to make a huuge cable. But you might notice the distance if you go too long…

    Let us know how you get on!
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