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20m firewire
I moved my office and now run my Mac to the Io using a 20m firewire but am not getting a signal. Did nothing different.
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20 meters?!?!?! Where the hell did you even find such a cable? You can’t have a firewire cable longer than 14-15 feet. You would need repeaters of some kind to boost the signal every 15 feet….
whos bright idea was that?
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well i see you can get them from a few locations…. but the signal is not strong enough for the io
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the 10m works on another station so I’m going to try a repeater
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Even with repeaters – which are readily available – I would not extend a FW signal that far. Extend the tie lines instead [AES, SDI, CV, RS-422, Componenet Video, etc.]
steve covello
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good call. thats the correct choice.
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Steve is correct – and if you dont’ want to extend the audio/video lines, get a Gefen CAT 5 5000 HD, and use 4 CAT 5 lines to extend the keyboard, mouse and monitors to the CPU that will live 3′ away from your I/O box (and VTR’s). You room will become
very quiet.Bob Zelin
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