[ILUG] house wiring - serial over cat-5

[Baldwin_James at emc.com]

If only Nikola Telsa were alive today....

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ronan [mailto:j0n at tssg.wit.ie]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:49 PM
To: Geoff Moore
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] house wiring - serial over cat-5


Aren't RS422/RS485 the Current loop standards which cope with noise much
better.

A quick search

http://home.ican.net/~miclee/rs232.html
On 27-Apr-01 Geoff Moore wrote:
> You could run RS232 through mains cable if you wanted to (as long as you
> didn't need any hardware flow control...'cos there wouldn't be enough
> cores).
> 
> RS422, RS423 and RS485 are all flavours of differential serial data.
> 

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