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Next room I/O docking station.

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How far can you stretch an I/O docking station and by what method is best. Personally I'm looking to get no more than 50ft with is a tall order.

I have 2 HDMI cables, 1 component cable (with audio), 1 usb 2.0, and 1 ethernet cable going from my desktop in the basement to my studio room on the top floor. It's really about 40ft for each cable but the extra is nice to have.

I would like to combine all of that to 1 cable and in one of Linus' personal rig updates, he used a Thunderbolt Cable to go between his personal rig and his peripherals in the other room. I have a feeling Thunderbolt is much like usb where it can't go beyond 10ft without some sort of repeater or extender on the cable. I thought about a type of optical cable but those are crazy expensive for this type of project. 

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You need to use an optical cable.

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