The longer the cables the higher their impedance and as result the worse the signal integrity. Higher quality (and generally, more expensive) cables will tend to exhibit less of that and can thus run to longer distances before starting to introduce bit errors.
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:56 PM, BillyT Sr <billyts...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been using a couple IOIO OTGs attached to a PC. > I communicate with them using IOIOLibPC. > I have found that they work fine as long as I use short (36") USB cables. > When I use longer cables (120"), communication is extremely unreliable. > Sometimes they will not connect. > Many times they will connect but messages from the IOIOs will just stop > coming, even though I get no disconnection exception. > Any Ideas? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ioio-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ioio-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ioio-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ioio-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
