the devices that I have used are by Avocent<div><a href="http://www.connectivity.avocent.com/">http://www.connectivity.avocent.com/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:54, Michael Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msavage@golden.net">msavage@golden.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">We (church) are bringing in projectors, screens etc. (We already have sound.) We want to run the signal over ethernet cable. We have about 1000ft of Cat 6 courtesy of Cedric. (Don't worry, I have other uses planned for it.)<br>
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Anyways the manufacturer has stated the following: If you do not use our cable products, you will not get any support. When asked if we could test our plan with their devices, they said go ahead, but if you have problems we will not take them back. (ie we damaged them.)<br>
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This is the manufacturer's spec for cable.<br>
Kramer's BC−DGKat7a23 is a shielded twisted pair (STP) cable designed as the ideal companion to Kramer's twisted pair digital transmitter−receiver sets to provide optimum range and performance. The cable is optimized for the new 10GBASE−T applications as defined in IEEE 802.3an and for PoE+.<br>
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I have a few questions:<br>
1. This cable is shielded. The longest runs we are talking about are going to video monitors up to 150ft. (The projector runs will be less than 50'.)<br>
2. This cable requires soldering the shields to the metal outside of a special RJ45 connector.<br>
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Needless to say, this cable and its connectors are expensive. My baloney detector is going strong right now. To me the additional cost of this specialty cable far out-ways the benefits.<br>
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I believe we will bite the bullet on this one, as we cannot live without the warranty. But just for my sanity, what do people think?<br>
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I feel that it is a lot to do about nothing.<br>
Mike<br>
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