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CHAPTER 1: Quick Start Guide
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If you’re using any other type of Remote Unit:
If the cable distance will be 100 m
(330 ft.) or less, you don’t need to set anything. If it will be 100 to 200 m
(330 to 655 ft.), install jumpers on the three
right-hand
post pairs in each set
of three cable-length jumper posts (JP3 through JP5) in the Remote Unit. If
it will be 200 to 300 m (655 to 985 ft.), install jumpers on the three
left-hand
post pairs in each of these sets of cable-length jumper posts. See Figure 5-1
in
Section 5.2
.
2.
All Hub-to-Remote links
except
KVM/Serial/Audio types or those with Switching
Remote Units:
Does your application
require
the [Scroll Lock] key?
If not, you
don’t need to set anything. If it does:
–
If you’re using a Micro Remote (ACUMREM or ACU1006MRA):
Set position 2 of
the DIP switch for that link on the Remote to ON. Refer to
Section 5.1
.
–
If you’re using any other type of Remote Unit:
Set position 4 of the Remote
Unit’s DIP switch SW1 to OFF. Refer to
Section 5.3.1
.
(Be aware that this will disable the Extender’s reset function and, with the
Dual-Access Local Hubs, will disable the “Private Mode” feature as well.)
3.
KVM/Serial links only:
Will you be using hardware flow control on your serial
link?
If not, you don’t need to set anything. If you will be, install jumpers as
necessary on the signal jumper posts in your Local Hub and your Remote
Units (refer to Figure 5-3 at the end of
Chapter 5
).
4.
KVM/Serial links only:
What data rate will your serial link be using?
If you’ll be
running 9600 bps, you don’t need to set anything. If you’ll be running
19,200 bps, install a jumper on the jumper posts in your Remote Unit labeled
“Baud.” See Figure 5-2 in
Section 5.4
.
5.
KVM/Serial/Audio links and Hub-to-Switching-Remote links only:
What keyboard
key do you want to be the “hotkey” to start the Extender’s keyboard
commands?
If the keyboard’s right [Ctrl] key can be used for this purpose
(which it probably can if none of your software or hardware looks for a single
isolated press and release of this key), you don’t need to set anything. If you
need to press and release this key by itself to trigger some function of an
attached KVM switch or of a software program on an attached computer
(common on Compaq
®
Alpha
®
, HP
®
, and other workstations for which right
[Ctrl] maps to the [Compose] key), move position 2 of the DIP switch labeled
SW1 on the main circuit board inside the ACUREMSW or ACUVREM, or
position 2 of the two-position DIP switch for that link on the bottom of the
ACU1006MRA or ACU1006MRVA, to ON. Refer to
Section 5.3.2
.
