Reliable, high speed USB server?

[Streamline]

Hi, I need a USB server that I could use to extend the signals of a HD webcam and an ElGato video capture card. Does anyone know a product that I could use for this? If not, maybe anyone knows a different solution that I could use? The range needs to be 30 meters or 100 foot.

[Guest Generallee]

Hi, I need a USB server that I could use to extend the signals of a HD webcam and an ElGato video capture card. Does anyone know a product that I could use for this? If not, maybe anyone knows a different solution that I could use? The range needs to be 30 meters or 100 foot.

 

What do you exactly mean by USB server

[Streamline]

What do you exactly mean by USB server

 

I've found that USB to IP devices are called USB server. Basically a device that you can plug USB devices to and make them accessible to computers that are attached to the same network.

[techguru]

I've found that USB to IP devices are called USB server. Basically a device that you can plug USB devices to and make them accessible to computers that are attached to the same network.

sounds like you want a networked camera

[Streamline]

sounds like you want a networked camera

 

No, the setup needs to be used in a gaming tournament environment where unfortunately the gaming station will be quite far away from the streaming station since we hold the tournament in a movie theater. A networked camera is probably not going to give us the quality we want and then there's still a solution we need for the ElGato capture card. 

 

What I've found is that USB to IP devices mostly suck or are too expensive (USB 1.1 for the cheap ones in 2015, wtf). Software solutions aren't ideal, but there is software that allows for virtual USB connections making it possible to plug devices into one computer and make them appear as plugged in in a different computer, giving the connection the full internal network speed, but unfortunately those solutions also cost too much or I can't get them to work. Last solution is not going to be related to what I had initially planned, but it's probably what we're going to stick with: we will have to use two computers and Teamviewer on high quality settings in order to stream low latency video via network from on computer to another (tested it already, works surprisingly well, tho I don't really know about quality yet. Looks great on my 27" display, but we're going to use the projector in the movie theater for inhouse people to watch on)

[techguru]

No, the setup needs to be used in a gaming tournament environment where unfortunately the gaming station will be quite far away from the streaming station since we hold the tournament in a movie theater. A networked camera is probably not going to give us the quality we want and then there's still a solution we need for the ElGato capture card. 

 

What I've found is that USB to IP devices mostly suck or are too expensive (USB 1.1 for the cheap ones in 2015, wtf). Software solutions aren't ideal, but there is software that allows for virtual USB connections making it possible to plug devices into one computer and make them appear as plugged in in a different computer, giving the connection the full internal network speed, but unfortunately those solutions also cost too much or I can't get them to work. Last solution is not going to be related to what I had initially planned, but it's probably what we're going to stick with: we will have to use two computers and Teamviewer on high quality settings in order to stream low latency video via network from on computer to another (tested it already, works surprisingly well, tho I don't really know about quality yet. Looks great on my 27" display, but we're going to use the projector in the movie theater for inhouse people to watch on)

you say to expensive...those networked cameras are pretty cheap

what is the budget?