Surface Pro 3 Screen Duplication

[MHSian]

Hi All

 

Apologies if this is posted in the wrong section.

 

I've recently borrowed a Surface Pro 3 with the hope that we were able to mirror it to our projectors using Miracast. Unknowing to me that Miracast uses the Wireless signal of the Surface disconnecting it from our SSID, this causes a great deal of problems for us with regard to Mapped drives and network resources.

 

So far the best we have found is to Network our projectors and use the Epson EasyMP application. While it is easy to set up the lag and delay between what happens on screen to the projection is unacceptable.

 

I was wondering if anyone has been successful in implementing something like this or if anyone has any helpful tips/advice around devices that could be used?

 

Many thanks

Ian

Edited December 18, 2014 by MHSian

[sted]

shouldnt disconnect it from the wifi i can use t'internet etc at same time on my surface pro 1 iirc ot uses 2.4ghz for one 5ghz for the other

[MHSian]

What I've found so far is that you need to use the Surfaces wireless connection to connect to the Miracast dongle and then connect the Miracast dongle its self to the Schools SSID which isnt possible without creating a whole new SSID.

 

Perhaps I'm just doing it wrong...

[sted]

i dont remember needing to connect the dongle to a wifi network. im currently using miracast on my surface pro to my tv at home thats never been connected to my wifi and i can use the network fine both smb stuff and internet

[MHSian]

What Miracast devices are you guys using?

[sted]

at home its built into the tv but ive had a netgear something or other for demonstration purposes

[halbaradkenafin]

How about a USB VGA adapter? Then just plug it into the wall port or whatever normal method you use to connect a PC to it.

 

Only other way I can think would be to use a separate wifi dongle in the Surface and connect that to the projector, might need some tinkering with routing to ensure the traffic goes out that adapter rather than the normal wifi but it should be possible.