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To: Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
From: Eddie White <ewhite@ms1.nwla.com>
Subject: Re: Connecting two PCs that are far away
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i have run rs-232 up to 350 feet with *good* cable.  100' could be done with
a cheap tawian cable.  even though the eia sez not to...

why not use a couple of cheap utp ne-2000 boards and a cross-over network
cable?  no real distance problem there.


At 09:06 PM 1/23/97 +0000, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Dan Busarow wrote:
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>> Modems do not work if you just connect them together with phone cord.
>> There is some pretty expensive equipment you can get to simulate
>> the phone company but phone lines would be a lot easier.
>> 
>> Short haul modems run about 100-150 each, you need one at each end.
>> 
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>Wow, that's expensive.  My two PCs are about 100 feet apart but I want
>to nail down the cable on the walls so altogether we're talking about 200
>feet.
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>I just don't know if the cable would pick up too much noise along the way?
>What do you suggest?
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