USB to Projector
So I'm setting up projectors in the school where I work. And for us, the optimal setup is to use USB cables to connect the PCs and the projectors, however, there is a catch. The distance is such that the USB cables need a signal booster.
Now, in the first few tests I did, full screen video came over very choppy. I don't know if this is because of the hardware running on the host PC, because of the distance running over the USB cables, a fault of the cable or just my plain bad luck.
This is not a hardware forum. I am not posting a request for help therefore I am not going into great detail about the configuration of the machines I was testing. Rather I am writing to lament.
Google doesn't have much to help me in this. I'll admit I'm rather surprised. Usually a good google search will yield at least one or two promising leads, but in trying to find others who have used this setup I came across no answers in google's top results. I find this perplexing.
Now, I could go to Experts Exchange, of which I am a member, and do a similar search and maybe get an answer. More often than not though, if Experts Exchange has something, google will know and point one to it. Also as often, support forums contain advice to 'do a google search' for the described symptoms before posting to the forum.
In this case though such advice would seemingly be null advice. So now I have another question. Am I unique in seeing performance issues with this setup? Or, am I foolish to try this setup? Should I know better than to try a 40' USB cable run for something as data heavy as a full video signal streaming from the likes of Netflix? Hard to say. Time will tell. I have more powerful systems down the line to test. Perhaps one of them will yield better results.
Or, google, you could do a better job of finding this information and having it ready for me at a fraction of a second. By the way, how are you doing regarding my suggestion here? When will I be able to click a link form a search page and actually be taken directly to the result excerpt as shown on the search results page? It does me know good to like a search result only to find that the summary bit I twigged to isn't actually on the page you take me to. Even if it is there, but obscurely buried in a link to follow that doesn't help me either. In the words of Rob Brown as Jamal Wallace, "Come on professor Crawford!"