Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:23:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, crypt0genic <crypt0genic@ecad.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cable quality (was: poor ethernet performance?) Message-ID: <19990718182300.E65436@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199907170215.TAA25916@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 07:15:31PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907161656350.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> <199907170215.TAA25916@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Friday, 16 July 1999 at 19:15:31 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : Actually, I was referring to *digital* Audio cables like those > :used for CD Transports to Digital/Analog convertors such as Kimber Kable > :would be higher grade compared to Monster Cable. You're correct about the > :bit errors though. > > Digital is digital. Either it works or it doesn't. Anything that goes over copper isn't digital, it's digital simulated on analogue. Poor quality cables *can* cause problems. But I'm sure that most of the folklore that circulates on this subject is of the same nature as the advice to use loudspeaker cables with at least 20mm**2 cross section, preferably driven by tube-based amplifiers. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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