Home network thing

[redanalog]

Right,

 

I have had this idea for a while and I am trying to get this running. Basically, I want my Tower in 1 room with workstations able to log into it and use it individually (8 gamers, 1 tower style).

 

Only thing is, I am really not too sure what forum in here to use or even how to begin. Any Ideas/suggestions?

 

Pic related;

I can't draw but I can use shapes in MS Word to basically describe what I'm talking about

[bgibbz]

Cool idea, just a a bit premature for its time. There is really no technology available to make the latency low enough and quality good enough to use. You could technically use a Remote Desktop application like teamviewer, but it really makes no sense considering you would need pcs at each access point. For the cost, it simply makes no sense to do this. You are better of in terms of a usability and cost perspective to

simply use your PC as its intended, and setup a nas if you want to easily share data. If you absolutely need a PC in a room for "essentials", you are better off buying a nuc. 

[redanalog]

@bgibbz What Latency are we talking here? I was chatting to a few friends and they were saying something like 50ms which doesn't sound that bad for what I'm looking to do.

 

Might have to shift the 3 monitor setup into the room with the PC.

[thething55]

Are you asking for something like VDI? http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/definition/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-VDI

VDI is a server technology that, depending on how its setup, can either virtual applications using a remote desktop like window to another computer or fully virtualize a desktop environment.

[redanalog]

@thething55 There is probably a few ways that this can be done but that some sounds very interesting. That is definitely a solution I will be looking into in more detail.

The important thing to focus on here is that I want it all to be wireless.

[Blade of Grass]

Moved to Servers and NAS

[b1uew01f]

You don't want it all to be wireless. You just took a complex system with the potential to have unreasonable latency, and added in a connection method thaf amplifies the primary negative of the setup - latency.

 

If you can't do this wired, be very careful about how much time and money you invest in this.

[Mikensan]

Considering monitors are under 9ms for their response times these days, 50 is pretty bad. Even my old Samsung CRT was 21ms.

 

Linus didn't cover it all that well, but he installed a thunderbolt card, and used what looked like thunderbolt docks for his personal setup in his house. He used fiber thunderbolt connectors between the server and monitor/mouse/keyboard to help with latency. I'm going to say it's not cheap.