Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!akgua!brb
From: brb@akgua.ATT.COM (Brian R. Bainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Maximum Length of a PC Serial Cable?
Message-ID: <1804@akgua.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 88 21:05:56 GMT
References: <1986@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: AT&T Network Systems/Bell Labs, Atlanta GA
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From article <1986@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, by regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (michael regoli):
> 
> ]:[
> 
> before i go crazy trying to do something that can't be done, does
> anyone know a safe limit on the length of a serial cable?  i'd like
> to run a serial cable approximately 30 feet @ 9600 bps to drive a
> laser.

I could be hopelesly wrong, but I think that RS232 "specs" say that
it is good for 100 feet. I don't know if this is correct, but I have
had fairly good success at about 300, but there again, 300 feet may
be the "spec" instead of 100. In other words, 30 feet should be no
problem.

-- 
	Brian R. Bainter

 AT&T Technologies Atlanta Works
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