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KVM/IP

Asked by: socaltenor

A company I had done some work for purchased an Avocent DSR2020 a few years ago. This seemed to be a great solution to access servers that were hung in POST or couldn't establish network connectivity. I got by using it, but I don't know if I would buy one again. The remote mouse lagged, and it was just so difficult navigating through menus/directories. What kind of new technologies/products are on the market now for this purpose? Maybe you know of good, reasonably priced KVM/IP devices or software to load on a server. OR...maybe there is an altogether different approach being used.

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2009-09-08 at 16:49:39ID24716660
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KVM Switches

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Answers

 

by: jayasankerPosted on 2009-09-08 at 17:17:47ID: 25287311

 

by: ndaryPosted on 2009-09-08 at 23:27:23ID: 25288666

Todays KVM over IP gives almost real time video and mouse tracking when connecting form he cooperate office network.
Talk a look at Minicom KVM ip products: http://www.minicom.com/kvm-solutions.htm, they give good performance in competitive price.

The mouse lagging is actually the video image of the mouse that is been captured and redrawn on the screen, and been effected by the network bandwidth you have available. here are several tips how you can improve the mouse tracking speed.

1.      Remove desktop background images,
2.      On low bandwidth connection set the KvmIP to capture 256 colors (instead of 16 or 32 bit) it will reduce the amount of data require to be transferred
3.      Make sure that  your KVM cables does not pass closely to EMC interference sources (such as power supplies) they will reflect noise to the video image and the KVMiP works all time to clean them..

you can test drive Minicoms KVMip devices at: http://www.minicom.com/requestdemoip.cfm

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