From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 08:37:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06036 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:37:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (CEDB.DPCSYS.com [207.124.154.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06031 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:36:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA08793; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 16:23:25 GMT Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:23:24 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Tim Moony cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connecting two PCs that are far away In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Tim Moony wrote: > 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. 100 feet is no problem, 200 feet won't be either as long as you use good cable. Get 2-8 conducter (depending on wether you use hardware or software flow control) with a shield. Connect the shield to frame ground at *one* end, not both. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82