From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 21:54:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA09385 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms1.nwla.com (root@NS.NWLA.COM [207.22.207.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09380 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dial3.nwla.com (dial3.nwla.com [207.22.207.22]) by ms1.nwla.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07252; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 01:07:17 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 01:07:17 -0600 Message-Id: <199701240707.BAA07252@ms1.nwla.com> X-Sender: ewhite@ms1.nwla.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tim Moony From: Eddie White Subject: Re: Connecting two PCs that are far away Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk my first thought is to find your local belden dealer. they made the wire i used that other project; i can't find a scrap to give you the number. you might look for a local graybar and see what they have. or just get some shielded 100' tawain cables and string them together. probably work ok anyway. try L-com. www.L-com.com. 800-343-1455. they have all kinds of cable stuff. At 09:39 PM 1/23/97 +0000, you wrote: > > >On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Eddie White wrote: > >> 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. >> >[SNIP] > >Yes there is a problem. The other PC does not have enough resources >(memory) to run FreeBSD. I'll settle for good rs-232 cable. > >Know any *good* cable dealers? On the web? > > > >