Re: How long can a serial cable be on my GS?

[peterm@tlp.apana.org.au (Peter Maloney)]

JJeffries@psu.edu (Jason Jeffries) writes:

> I'd like to put a terminal attatched to my GS in another part of my
> house. (Looking forward to the new GNO kernel.) It's going to take
> quite a stretch of cable to reach it, though. How bad will it be if I
> use, say, 100ft of cable? Should I use these two goofy 50-ft. RS-232
> cables I already have coupled together, or should I buy RS-232 <>
> RJ-whatever adaptors and use 8 conductor phone wire? And lastly, at
> 100ft, what kind of speed am I going to be able to use? I presume
> 38.4kbaud will be too noisy... Am I going to need some kind of
> short-haul modems? If not, when I wire my cables, do need CTS/RTS flow
> control between the terminal and GS?
> 
> Jason Jeffries - JJeffries@psu.edu
> "Sex is dirty only if you're doing it right." - Woody Allen

Get yourself a couple of self-powered short-haul modems. Then you'll be 
able to use cheap phone cable and run at high speed (whatever the modems 
are capable of). 
Running over long lengths of RS-232 cable is not recommended for anything 
important unless you use special "low capacitance" cable - usually a 
light blue colour.
*<8o)X
Regds,
 Peter M.

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