It is summer, and I am roasting from having my two PCs upstairs in my office. But my downstairs is cool.
Is it possible to have USB 2.0 & 3.0/3.1 device & Freesync Premium Displayport (1080p 144hz) over long distances? I found a few threads theorizing about it, but no mention of Freesync and products to buy.
I’m poor so my budget isn’t loads, but I’m also not running a home lab, just my main PC and a cheapo AliExpress monstrosity for streaming the main one.
Try desktop sharing over ethernet maybe? I wonder if 1gig ethernet port would do the trick with mininal lag? I’ve had thoughts about this. Something to do with piping the screen over the network. Would need to be done with a pfsense box probably, any consumer router would lag.
You can share audio over virtual sinks too
Weird question but why not just a window air conditioner attached to cool the room or one big fan should blow a good amount of air around.
I’ve tried that actually, I use RDP with optimized settings for accessing my streaming PC from my main PC. Unfortunately it doesn’t come close. It’s usable, like you can code with the VS install on it, you can do basic Windows Explorer shenanigans, but absolutely dreadful for anything beyond that.
While doing it over free wifi or phone tether is outright unusable for even the most basic tasks.
I’ll be honest, this reads like a ChatGPT post lmao. But that’s some awesome info. First thing to check for the display port and usb extension cables, since if the display isn’t gonna work with an extender, no point trying all the other stuff.
So Freesync can work, just have to make sure they’re supported? Cool!
Unnecessary energy usage is money wasted, conditioner units are loud, and I’d definitely rather not have a good chunk of the wall screwed around with.
Routing cables behind the skirting boards though? And using my PCs’ heat to properly heat up the house as a side effect? And not have their operating noise in my office?
Win, win, win!
You could also get an HVAC booster fan, aluminum hvac tape and cheap hvac piping straight to the window and make a closed exhaust system
forget all those previous stuff. I run 2 server and in the leaving room i can plan and watch movie over with usb 10g cable optical of 100meter and had 3 hdmi optical cable.
as backup just get also a usb to eth cable converter. i had 2 fry in the past, optical still run good. No delay.
Hell yeah. Are there any particular brands you recommend? Optical sounds like the way to go, since lowest possible latency rather than copper wire.
What about the sunshine+moonlight combo?
This setup is perfect for local pc streaming because it loves bandwidth. After the discontinuation of Nvidia shield and GeForce game stream, sunshine was developed that continues the protocols used by moonlight, now with added features for a broader range of hardware.
I would recommend wired all the way for such a latency sensitive thing. Especially because if you could get 1gb from end to end you can push 120fps and 4k. Even over WiFi, hopefully for only one hop, you can still achieve 1080p 60 with only 25mbs bandwidth. More will always be better.
I and not sure if I have understood your problem completely, but I hope this helps!
I also second the sunshine + moonlight route, especially if you don’t want to spend additional $$$ - (RDP is great for the flexibility, resolution changes, copy + paste files and clipboard content, but dreadfull for full motion). A wired network is still strongly recommended.
I had a similar problem where I didn’t want my compute close to my hot tub (for obvious reasons), so I installed a model like this AV Access HDMI KVM extender. For my needs and use case it was almost 100% like working locally. Getting the cabling just right was key, and if I had a slightly longer run, I might have tried to use the fiber-optic versions. There are a lot of little trade-offs in this space, depending on your exact needs, so it’s good to look at the features and make a priority list of what must work and what is ok.
I also use Jump Desktop for some cases and sunshine+moonlight for others and they have different tradeoffs, but might be a good way of seeing what you need before you jump at a hardware solution.
You’ll want an active optical DisplayPort 1.4 cable. Make sure it supports the full spec that you need. They are made in lengths up to 100m, but they get very expensive very fast. Check out Infinite Cables for reference.
You’ll also want a USB extender that is transparent to your PC. You can save some money by only getting something that supports USB 2.0, but if you need 5 Gbps they make those too. A good brand is Icron.
This is pretty much exactly LinusTechTips’ setup
This would be interesting for a dedicated gaming setup, but I’d have to get another monitor, get ethernet wiring installed (going to happen anyway at some point…), and buy another PC able to have a rock-solid 60fps as a client. For text files, programming, etc., it’s not ideal.
This is a really cool option. Is there a reason to use this over just straight up using active optical cables instead? Looking at it, it seems like a way to switch between different PCs and not having to touch any cabling. Hmmm, that could be handy but is also overkill for my use case.
Good shout for the brand names, but unfortunately Infinite Cables are Canadian (I’m in Scotland) and Icron…Oh my god those prices are extortionate.
Giving these a quick look, the cost is going to be around a thousand quid? 1x Optical Displayport cable + 2 access points (plug pc into downstairs wall, plug monitor into upstairs wall), 4 USB 3 cables + 2x multi-USB 3 access points, 1x Optical SPDIF cagble + 2 access points…
Yeah this is going to cost an arm and a leg. Might not be a project I get done this year because money.
Yeah you‘ll need a second PC as client. But this can be pretty much anything released in the last 7 years, that has at least GB Ethernet and HW video acceleration. The original PC can be run headless without screen. You could use a hdmi dummy plug or a virtual screen on the host. Setup autologin, run sunshine as system service, pair the two devices, done.
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