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I used to have a rackmounted pc, and audio interface, personal server, etc all on one rack. Over time, things shrunk, and it made more sense to put it all in a

I used to have a rackmounted pc, and audio interface, personal server, etc all on one rack. Over time, things shrunk, and it made more sense to put it all in a well ventilated spot in the garage with a 10gbps link to my office. I could have used wifi, the bandwidth would have been fine, but where's the fun in that ;)

tkanarsky 4y ago
You could also throw a Thunderbolt interface card in it and fish a 50m optical tb3 cable through the walls to a dock on your desk :)
- pbronez 4y ago
  That's the dream! Going another step, I'd love to have a Thunderbolt to fiber adapter without having everything baked into a single cable. These products exist, but cost $5000 for each end https://www.atto.com/products/thunderbolt-adapters/thunderlink/thunderbolt-to-fc/TLFC-3322-D00 https://www.atto.com/products/thunderbolt-adapters/thunderli...
  - tkanarsky 4y ago
    Yikes. Probably such a niche product that they slap a pretty beefy FPGA and some off the shelf NICs together which can't be good for the BOM cost haha. On a similar note I recently worked with an adapter that carries USB 2.0 over a cat5 cable. It doesn't even do that good of a job -- jitter is pretty high, which makes it useless for our use case of controlling a laser cutter live from a host computer -- but guess how much it costs? $736! https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/usb-20-extender---catx-2-port/ic402a-r2 https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/usb-20-e...