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- From: paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen)
- Subject: Re: EIA-232 cable length restrictions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.233829.4384@tfs.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <1992Aug17.192021.4354@miles.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:38:29 GMT
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- I do not claim to be an expert on this, but I thought that I would
- throw in a data point.
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- I used 100 feet of unshielded phone wire (radio shack 22 g.) at 9600
- baud with no difficulty. There were no errors, even while doing file
- xfer, no interference from or to the cable.
-
- Well, that I noticed, anyway.
-
- I remember being led to believe, on the basis of a table in the Kermit
- book (yellow cover) that I would have spotty results with 9600/100 ft.
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