Bennett Price wrote:
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> Grinder wrote:
>> Bennett Price wrote:
>>> My backup device is a USB 2.0 250 MB Iomega Hard Drive.I'd like to
>>> put it in my garage, requiring about 20 to 25 feet of wire. The
>>> official
>>> USB specs say 5 meters max; if further use a hub/repeater.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering how realistic the 5 meter spec is. I recall that parallel
>>> printer cables were supposed to be limited to 10 feet or so; 75 foot
>>> cables worked just fine. Same thing with the specs for RS-232 cables.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any real world experience with long USB 2.0 cables?
>>> I'm thinking of building mine using unshielded CAT5 cable, one twisted
>>> pair for power, another for data. Wise? foolish?
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>> I'm sorry I don't have any experienc in that regard. It seems like a
>> simple enough enterprise, though, to just try it and run some
>> performance test reading and writing to the volume. If it's not
>> living up to spec, the addition of a single *powered* hub should fix
>> you right up. You might have some difficulty in finding a 25-30 ft
>> cable though--I can't remember seeing one much more that 15 ft.
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>> A pricier altenative, but still nifty to check out is IOGear's Cat-5
>> USB extender:
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>> http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=p...net%20Extender
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> Thanks for the URL; surprising that it's only USB 1.1

Yeah, I didn't notice that. $70 is way too much.