What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
This is an excellent video extender that worked exactly as advertised. I use this in our church, where we run a monitor screen to the front of the stage for our band to use for lyrics cues. This product works fantastic and provides a cheap solution to... Read More
The repeater unit is great when running two projectors as you can loop through from the first projector. The transmitter has 2 female vga connectors for 2 local monitor and one male on it. The one downside is that you will need a female to male adapte... Read More
Great buy for $89. They had been manufactured discontinued for several years. Shipped on time.
Much easier to run a cat5 cable than try to squeeze a vga cable through tight holes and runs. Installed it at the back tech booth and has been going strong since.
Cons
Adjusting the unit with the adjustment screw/switch did not clear the ghosting. Power button blinks intermittently and i can't figure out what to do.
Highlights
Quality
I popped these suckers open and was very impressed with the quality in construction, something i wasn't expecting in this price bracket.
Picture quality is great; installation is very fast.
I had installed a triplite brand and the picture quality was poor.
If you buy a vga extension cable for this use (such as the belkin i bought), watch out for it having fastening posts that will ... Read More
Price
I have managed to push these 400 feet, with a cat5 coupler half-way along with acceptable results, which for the price is prett... Read More
Competitiveness
I've always had good luck with startech products.
After purchasing a competitors device and those failing, i purchased the startech vga to cat 5 devices and they worked great.
The boxes are connected by a cat5 ethernet cable that you supply up to 150m long.
I have a run of cat6 cable that is '75.
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- This product had a total of 160 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 8 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
By default the eq and gain pots come turned to zero the image will likely be dim if you do not tweak these pots
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its running on 150 ft and is as if in regular cable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Requires only cat5 between units
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We are only running at 1024x768 though
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont know how it would perform at higher resolutions
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you buy a vga extension cable for this use such as the belkin i bought watch out for it having fastening posts that will interfere with the connection to the extender
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A hack saw fixed the problem but just be aware
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We are using a 24 screen but i dont notice much quality degredation if any
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