( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 11 2009
I got this to connect an IR blaster in the living room to a pc in the office upstairs. The cable goes from the office to the attic, then connects to another cable that goes down to the crawlspace and into the living room. It didn't seem to be getting power to the blaster, so I tried connecting it with a short cat5 in the office, then at the end of the line from the office to the attic, then connecting it in the attic to a laptop in the living room, then using the full run of cable in both directions. It seemed to work reliably at a distance of 45ft, but at 75ft it wasn't stable. The blaster's led would light when detecting signals from a remote, but it would send signals maybe once out of 20 attempts. Eventually it stopped responding altogether. The PC could still detect that the blaster was attached, but couldn't make it function. I thought the problem might be there isn't enough power at that distance for an unpowered peripheral, but I didn't have much more luck with powered DVD drive. Attempts to rip a DVD failed several times before getting all the way through without losing the connection, and at 12mbps, took an hour. I don't know if it is a limit of the technology or this particular brand. I'll need to order a different one to be sure.
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Posted: Sep 16 2008
Irritating to find that there was an asterisk on the box that says "*Limited to 12Mbps" Try running a modern web cam like that, especially a Logitech. It fails miserably... this didn't work as advertised, and unfortunately, I have to ship 7 of these back..
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Posted: Jun 14 2008
I bought this to extend the length of my un-powered Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 - Web camera - color - USB to put in the attic so I can use it as a security camera out to my parking area. It took about 30 seconds for the cam to be recognized by the i-Catcher webcam software ([...]) and from then on it has been clicking pics beyond the 16' USB limit with no problems. There was an issue when Windows decided to do its Update and boot my PC, it told me I was using too much bandwidth on that USB port, I suspect it is because I have two of those WebCams on the same port so I moved the one with the 50' CAT6 cable to a separate port.
