| Sometimes, your video source and your video | | | | EXT-VGA-141SR from Gefen. This is a much |
| display are just too far apart. What about | | | | cleaner option for many people and I'll tell you |
| situations where you have a monitor in one room | | | | why. |
| and its host PC in another? | | | | First, it uses Cat5 cabling to extend your VGA |
| Well, you have a few options. You can obviously | | | | display. Cat5 cabling is readily available and very |
| just buy a longer cable. The problem there? For | | | | inexpensive. Additionally, many buildings come |
| one, VGA cabling can get pretty expensive as | | | | pre-wired for networking capabilities, which means |
| you look at the longer runs. More importantly, | | | | they already have runs of Cat5 available. |
| VGA's video signal deteriorates and quality gets | | | | The other primary advantage to a VGA extender |
| worse and worse the farther you go. Additionally, | | | | is that you can run video signals up to 150 feet |
| VGA cables of a longer length are somewhat | | | | over Cat5 with minimal signal loss. Trying to do so |
| bulky and downright ugly. | | | | over standard VGA cabling would result in very |
| Another option is to use something like the | | | | poor video indeed. |