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

[denisf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Denis Fafard)]

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?
> 

 Well, I'm no expert in this by any means, but I would definitely say 
that you should be getting a single cable with maximum sheilding.  No 
matter how you go, the less the physical number of connections, the 
better.
  As for speed, well, I wouldn't want to drop below 38.4k just for the 
sake of usability.  But experiment.  Whatever works for you.

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Denis Fafard   denisf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca   
Edmonton Remote Systems   Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982