> How far can I pull a cable like this without signal degradation?
> A common figure I hear thrown around is 50 feet. Is this RS-232 or
> RS-422 or what? I estimate I will need about 80 to 100 feet of cable
The SPEC for RS-232 states 50 feet max. That is for unshielded,
non-twisted-pair cable. You can get much more length out of twisted-pair
cable. I have run 110K (ASYNC) sessions over CAT-5 (unshielded) cable
>200 feet no problems. YMMV, etc.
> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
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