Hey all,
I wanted to share my proposed setup and just ask you guys for your opinions and to see if it's actually feasible:
I've got a fairly potent gaming PC (Falcon Northwest Tiki) that I've got setup in my living room, connected to my TV. It currently acts as a media centre, but I also use a wireless Xbox remote to play games as if it were a game console.
I had an idea to setup an "office" environment in a spare room upstairs, but I wanted to use the same PC. Now, as far as I know, there's not really a limit to how long an HDMI cable can be. I'm thinking of having an HDMI splitter plugged into the GPU of the PC downstairs, and run an HDMI cable to the room upstairs and plug that into a desktop size LCD (as well as having the splitter with another cable plugged into the TV currently residing in the living room).
Then, use an ethernet USB extender and run the cable upstairs and have a USB hub plugged in upstairs as well. I would then plug a wireless USB receiver into the hub upstairs - for a wireless keyboard and mouse set - as well as a USB optical drive.
So, essentially I'll have a "server" sitting in my living room where I can view media and play games on our TV downstairs, and if I need to do work upstairs while my family is watching (regular) TV downstairs, I'll have a display as well as USB and optical inputs in the upstairs room.
Does this sound a bit far fetched, or do you think it's possible?
I wanted to share my proposed setup and just ask you guys for your opinions and to see if it's actually feasible:
I've got a fairly potent gaming PC (Falcon Northwest Tiki) that I've got setup in my living room, connected to my TV. It currently acts as a media centre, but I also use a wireless Xbox remote to play games as if it were a game console.
I had an idea to setup an "office" environment in a spare room upstairs, but I wanted to use the same PC. Now, as far as I know, there's not really a limit to how long an HDMI cable can be. I'm thinking of having an HDMI splitter plugged into the GPU of the PC downstairs, and run an HDMI cable to the room upstairs and plug that into a desktop size LCD (as well as having the splitter with another cable plugged into the TV currently residing in the living room).
Then, use an ethernet USB extender and run the cable upstairs and have a USB hub plugged in upstairs as well. I would then plug a wireless USB receiver into the hub upstairs - for a wireless keyboard and mouse set - as well as a USB optical drive.
So, essentially I'll have a "server" sitting in my living room where I can view media and play games on our TV downstairs, and if I need to do work upstairs while my family is watching (regular) TV downstairs, I'll have a display as well as USB and optical inputs in the upstairs room.
Does this sound a bit far fetched, or do you think it's possible?
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