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OT – USB cam Cable Length? Need 50 feet or more
We need to set up 7 inexpensive cam’s in 7 office cubicals.
(No computer in the cubical, only a small table & 2 chairs. Like a sales booth.)
We hope to be able to use inexpensive off the shelf usb web cam’s.
Cams will point down to the table to record what is written on a pad of paper… and we also need to record the conversation in the booth.
1 – Can anyone suggest the best budget web cams to consider?
2 – The booths are 5 ft wide and all in a row. We hope to plug all cams into one PC so the cable runs will be long.
– How long can a USB cable be?
– Can you get USB repeaters to extend the cable length?
– What other solutions are there that we should take a look at?thanks for any help.
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You can go upto 80 feed using ‘active’ cables that have built-in buffering (presumably powered by a powered connector at the computer end). One can connect up to five of the following cables which are 16 feet long each (which I think is near the limit for a single unbuffered cable). I personally use one of these, but have not chained them.
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