At 12:52 Uhr +0200 29.09.1998, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>I know this is slightly off topic, so anticipated apologies:
>
>Is there anyone out there who tried to do do a - *PROLONGATED* -
>ser-to-ser connection using a modem on both ser ports connecting then
>the 2 modems with an rj11 phone cable? I thought that might be a cheaper
>way to exceed the about 5m limit of direct ser connection (at least
>that's what I learned would be the limit on the Mac)

That limit depends on the transmission speed and should be much larger for
the Macintoshes' RS-422 than for a vanilla RS-232 line because of their
differential lines -- definitely more than 5m with, say, 38k4.

What line length are we talking about?

	hauke


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