PC access from another room?

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Does anyone know of an affordable, preferably wireless, way to be able to access a PC from another room while locating Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor in another room?

editted to add that I'd like to use the PCs resources for BF2 and other games

 

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wireless not that i know. could run remote desktop if you have a computer in the room (could be wireless) or just run extentions.

side note hows that asrock for you i just ordered it with a 3200+

 

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I just use my laptop with the wireless connection and use remote desktop to get to my main computer.

 

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thats what i do too (the laptop/remote desktop thing). i use it more to run windows on my powerbook from school tho, but same deal pretty much

 

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jmh547 said:

wireless not that i know. could run remote desktop if you have a computer in the room (could be wireless) or just run extentions.

side note hows that asrock for you i just ordered it with a 3200+

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Well I love the ASRock motherboard so far but one warning is that you'll find yourself with a money pit because you'll start wanting a PCI-e graphics card then two 1gig sticks of ram and then you'll find yourself wanting to set up a RAID. So far my setup plays BF2 with little problem with exception of a network problem that's not its fault.

 

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Thanks for the replies all. I had to edit my post because I want to use the PCs resources to play BF2 and my wireless router is giving me fits so I'd like to wire the PC to the router so I don't have slow down and connection issues from the router.

 

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Maybe a KVM over ethernet connection? Basically, it takes the KB/Mouse/Monitor signal and merges it to a Cat5 connection, then splits it again. I'm not sure what kind of bandwidth you will be able to push for gaming though.