Depends how far you want to extend it. RS-232 will only go about 50 feet. To
do that you can just use a straight thru cat-5.
To extend further we use a blackbox fiber modem. ME600A-FST. RS-232 on one
end and ST on the other. I'm not sure the exact specs but we have used them
to extend 300 +
I only need to extend about 10 feet. Is that one of the cables that has a
black ends with 8 RJ45 ports on each end?
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Rich;
You are spot on that RS-232 is only spec#8217;ed for 50 ft. However, I
have run RS-232 over 1000 ft at 9.6 kbps on wire that was not as good as
cat5. My advice is to try it first, at any reasonable length, and only
resort to active components if the tests fail. Just my experience.
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