> > This answer is exactly correct. In fact, some companies sell active USB
> > extender cables which are nothing but a length of wire with a 1-port hub
> in
> > the far end.
> >
> > USB hubs can be stacked up to 4 levels deep (total length = 5 * 5
> meters)
>
        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Russell McMahon [SMTP:apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ]
        Sent:   Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:49 PM
        To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
        Subject:        Re: [EE]: usb-cables longer than 5 meters... A
repeater of some sort?

        I have a 3 page Intel paper which explains in some detail why you
can't do
        this :-)


The product in the URL below allows USB to be extended to over 100meters on
Cat5 cable or over 500meters on fibre.

http://www.ihse.de/english/417-3e.htm

Regards

Mike

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