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Connecting your kvm extender, Preparing your site, Instruction manual – StarTech.com USB VGA KVM Console Extender over CAT5 UTP User Manual

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Instruction Manual

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Connecting Your KVM Extender

Preparing Your Site

Before you can install the the product, you need to prepare your site.

Determine where the

1.

host

computer will be located and set up the

computer.

Determine where the console devices (mouse, keyboard, monitor) will

2.

be located and place them appropriately.

a) If you are using surface cabling, ensure you have enough

3.
Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) network cabling to
connect

the

Host

Unit to the Remote Unit’s location, and that each

end is terminated with a RJ-45 connector.

OR

3. b) If you are using premises cabling, ensure that the Category 5
unshielded twisted pair (UTP) network cabling between the

Host

Unit and the Remote Unit has been properly terminated in a wall
outlet in each location and there is a patch cable long enough to
connect the Remote Unit and the

Host

Unit to their respective

outlets.