gofanco 395ft 1080p HDMI Extender Over IP Receiver - 1 to Many or Over Single Cat5e/Cat6/Cat7 Cable with Remote IR Control - Up to 395 feet (120m) Full HD 1080p (RX Part# HDbitTRX)

For my particular setup, I needed this HDMI over Ethernet to go through a minimum of two switches. My basement is finished and I don't want to tear into the drywall. I have a main 16-port Gigabit switch near the router and I ran Ethernet cabling to each room, but only one line. If I have more than one device that needs Ethernet at a single location, I have deployed small 8-port gigabit switches. In my testing, the "gofanco HDMI Over IP Extender" worked great over a direct ethernet connection and through one single switch (with some expected audio lag). I could not get it to work through two or three switches. It would glitch every few seconds cutting the video and audio. The gofanco connected to my switches at 10/100 bit speed, so it's very frustrating that over multiple gigabit switches that it could not find enough throughput to reach the receiver on the other end with a quality signal.

I had to split a signal in a classroom and the main problem I had was splitting the hdmi signal already going to the projector. I had purchase an HDMI splitter but due to the length of the HDMI going to the Projector which I believe was more than 25ft the signal was week and I was not able to use that so I remember I had already some of this gofanco sets around the campus and they worked great so I just purchase another set.What I ended up doing was purchasing 2 25ft HDMI cables one to go from the computer to the transmitter then the other from the receiver to the TV. I use a 3ft HDMI to the faceplate that is connected with probably another HDMI cable (more then 25ft long) to send the signal to the projector and to connect the reviver I used a cat6 that was already installed on the faceplate with a foot long cat6 patch cable to the receiver, then the 25ft down to the TV. I am only giving you details to show how much I pushed the limitation of the signal based on recommended lengths and I still manage to get a 1920x1080/60. I also have another receiver on campus that I connected to the network, that I use to monitor the CC system in multiple offices, I use 4 receivers for that purpose. I probably need to understand more on exactly how over the network system works but for me it was a plug and play experience using gigabit switches. Maybe the price seems a bit high but I know the results are always great.FYI.I did experiment to see what happens wen you plug two transmitters to the same network and the receivers goes nuts trying to pick a signal from either or. This company had another system that actually works with multiple transmitters over IP, I will try that one next time.Thank you,

I bought this, and a similar product from a China brand at the same time, so that I could compare them side by side. The China product worked, but with weird menus and glitches. The product from Gofanco was flawless. Almost what you'd expect if Apple made it, minus the overslick packaging. Somewhere the Gofanco docs even said that it was designed in the USA, and you could tell. The Gofanco documentation and menus were in clear English and everything worked. Gofanco makes a really complete line of products like this one. Shows that they really understand the market. Reminds me of Anker. If Anker makes it, stop looking and buy it from them. The same is true of Gofanco.

I've been using this transmitter with multiple receivers for more than a year and it is fantastic. Works great with no problems. Note that each receiver (and the transmitter) has its own power plug, which was exactly what I needed. I tried several other brands that use "power over ethernet" -- where only the transmitter has a power plug and the receivers get power from it over the ethernet line -- but that didn't work for me for some reason, even though I have all new Cat6 ethernet lines. This Gofanco unit is simple and just worked right away with no problems. I'm about to buy another receiver because it has worked so well.Note: I have had a problem with the sound on one Samsung TV, where it cuts out and I sometimes have to reset by unplugging and replugging this unit. But it appears to be a problem with the TV and not the Gofanco unit, because I have three other TVs with these receivers (including a different Samsung) and they have had zero problems.

First I will state it works as designed. The setup is very simple and the devices have low power consumption. I am using these devices to connect my NVR which is located in my wiring closet to a HDMI port on my bedroom TV. A knock on the door I just press one remote button to see who is at the door. This device uses multicast HDbitT to send the information to the receiver(s). Because of the amount of multicast traffic this device will produce, I do not recommend using it with a network switch that cannot handle multicast data. If the switch does not support multicast it will still work by broadcasting the traffic to all switch ports not just the one the receiver(s) are connect to. The effect this has is adding latency and unnecessary traffic throughout every segment of your switched network. Basically this mean the other devices on your network will be less responsive and in some cases may not respond. Of course, there is no issue if you use a direct Cat5E or better cable to connect the sender and receiver.