On February 6, 2010 at 23:04, Audible Solutions said...
By protocol, 60 feet is the maximum length. In fact 100 feet wil work reliablly. Gregg's response is correct. At 9600bps you can go much further, reliably, than at 11500bps. I believe that sending RS232 hundreds of feet very bad practice, if you are not using short haul modems or RS-422, particularly with CAT5. On a shielded, twisted pair with very low capacitance, like Cresnet you will do better, more reliably.
Up to 125 feet I'd use CAT5. Over that try a device server or some other protocol converter.
Alan
Alan is right on this. We did a project a year ago where we were attempting to control an Orion Video Wall. We intially ran cat5 (75 - 100 feet) to the screens for control. The Orion Baud rate was 11500 bps and ran into all kinds of problems. We had to run crestnet to an ST-COM at the video wall and it finally worked for us.
Last edited by Gman-north on February 28, 2010 07:34.
