Re: Working towards something good*

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Tristan Mumford wrote:
> Rob Greene wrote:
>
>
> > Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote in
> > news:45e2bc47$0$91140$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net:
> >
> >
> > > I chose for now to do the modem to modem connection because I need to
> > > get data maybe 30m across the house.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, do you have serial ports on both sides?  You might want
> > to investigate that instead.  Then you don't have to tinker with modems.
> > I'm running a serial cable from my IIgs into the basement and across the
> > house - I'd guess 60 feet or so.  My connection is 57600 without any
> > problems.
>
>
> I do have serial ports on both ends. Although the serial port on the PC end
> is a precious commodity as there is only one for some reason.

There is almost certainly another one (COM2?) inside the case, with no
connector attached to the header.

> Hm. 60' is roughly equal to 18m. And 30m is roughly 98' according to an
> online calculator.
> Would that pose capacitance problems?
> I'm also a little worried that I underestimated the length. It's not a large
> house, but the computers are on diagonally opposite corners of the house.

Theoretically, the serial cable is too long, but practically, it will
usually work, particularly if the bit rate is dropped some.

-michael

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