Speaking of cables, I am planning to run a 35 m Cat 5 enhanced UTP patch network cable from my house to an outside studio. I plan to go through the floor under the house, out an air vent and then underground to the studio.
Questions: How durable is this cable? Is it subject to problems from moisture? I am wondering whether to just dig a deep trench and bury it as I did when I ran a phone cable (which was designed for outside and has silicon inside it) there or whether to feed the underground section through a pvc pipe? Kind Regards Reg > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 8:53 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Who donated that dunger? Anyone for a WiFry? > > The limits on USB are the same for 1.1 as 2.0 afaik > > No more than 5 metres of unboosted cable. (I have a mouse with a 6 foot cord on the end of a 5 metre extension and it works on a USB2 > port but not a > USB1 port) > > Maximum total length is 25 metres with active signal boosters every 5 > metres. (probably to do with bit times and all that coax ethernet timing > stuff from last century.) > > > -- > C. Falconer > http://www.avonside.school.nz/ > http://criggie.dyndns.org/ > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 5:47 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Who donated that dunger? Anyone for a WiFry? > > > <snip> > > I expect that you could make a USB cable as long as you like, but the > signals have a high clock rate so they would degrade past a certain point > (that and the voltage drop). 5m might be an arbitrary limit set by the USB > specification, but it is not unreasonable, and guaranteed to work. > >
