[Eeyore]

TT wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
: :
: Can you run this box from an ordinary network connection ?
:
: Graham
:
Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me that
want a longer cable will be able to easily make one.

What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network card then ?


This
is why I chose this solution so I could have my Hi-Fi PC and
1 x 6mm CAT5 cable running to the break out box where I can
then have all the interconnects the shortest possible
length.

You asked about firewire earlier - really no need. CD PCM is
only 1411kbps and DVD-A 6 ch is only 1.382 mbps so on a
cable capable of 350 mbps it is already, as Arny pointed
out, overkill.

KISS (keep it simple stupid) is what I went by. Also I
can't make firewire cables (yet)

Don't need to.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Firewire-6pin-...QQcmdZViewItem

Graham

[TT]

"Eeyore" wrote in
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: TT wrote:
:
: "Eeyore" wrote
: : :
: : Can you run this box from an ordinary network
connection ?
: :
: : Graham
: :
: Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
: manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me
that
: want a longer cable will be able to easily make one.
:
: What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network
card then ?

He then becomes and Ex-mate and the PCMCIA card then
comunicates with smoke signals I suppose ;-) This is an
obvious draw back and no different to people pluging wrong
RCA plugs into the wrong places i.e SPDIF into video, video
into annalog etc. I do not know from personal experience
*if* damge will occur but the manual does make a point of
saying that damge will occur. Just don't do it.

BTW I use a lot of CAT5 as speaker cable as well so I have
this stuff running everywhere :-)


Cheers TT

[Arny Krueger]

"Eeyore" wrote in
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TT wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote

Can you run this box from an ordinary network
connection ?

Graham

Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me
that want a longer cable will be able to easily make one.

What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network
card then ?

In fact, probably nothing, except that nothing functions properly. Usually
people building gear like this use the 100BTX voltage levels and impedances,
but do not use the same signals and protocols.

[Eeyore]

Arny Krueger wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
TT wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote

Can you run this box from an ordinary network
connection ?

Graham

Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me
that want a longer cable will be able to easily make one.

What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network
card then ?

In fact, probably nothing, except that nothing functions properly. Usually
people building gear like this use the 100BTX voltage levels and impedances,
but do not use the same signals and protocols.

It would be very silly to have made it intentionally incompatible for sure but
stranger things have happened.

Graham

[Arny Krueger]

"Eeyore" wrote in
message
Arny Krueger wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
TT wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote

Can you run this box from an ordinary network
connection ?

Graham

Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me
that want a longer cable will be able to easily make
one.

What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network
card then ?

In fact, probably nothing, except that nothing functions
properly. Usually people building gear like this use
the 100BTX voltage levels and impedances, but do not use
the same signals and protocols.

It would be very silly to have made it intentionally
incompatible for sure but stranger things have happened.

It's all about KISS. Network cards don't look like much, and that's because
all they do is front end a lot of code in the host computer. I can see why
people don't want to load up their audio products with it. There are audio
products that support 100BTX, but they are far more complex and expensive.

[Bertie the Bunyip]

Eeyore wrote in
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Arny Krueger wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
TT wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote

Can you run this box from an ordinary network
connection ?

Graham

Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me
that want a longer cable will be able to easily make one.

What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network
card then ?

In fact, probably nothing, except that nothing functions properly.
Usually people building gear like this use the 100BTX voltage levels
and impedances, but do not use the same signals and protocols.

It would be very silly to have made it intentionally incompatible for
sure but stranger things have happened.


Fjukkwit netkkoping ****



Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip]

Eeyore wrote in
:



TT wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
: :
: Can you run this box from an ordinary network connection ?
:
: Graham
:
Absolutely *NOT* and damage will occur! (so says the
manual). The reason why they did it is so mugs like me that
want a longer cable will be able to easily make one.

What happens when your 'mate' plugs it into the network card then ?


This
is why I chose this solution so I could have my Hi-Fi PC and
1 x 6mm CAT5 cable running to the break out box where I can
then have all the interconnects the shortest possible
length.

You asked about firewire earlier - really no need. CD PCM is
only 1411kbps and DVD-A 6 ch is only 1.382 mbps so on a
cable capable of 350 mbps it is already, as Arny pointed
out, overkill.

KISS (keep it simple stupid) is what I went by. Also I
can't make firewire cables (yet)

Don't need to.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Firewire-6pin-...3m-Cable-Lead-
FREE-
P-P_W0QQitemZ300035294784QQihZ020QQcategoryZ31493QQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Graham



Fjukkwit wannabe



bertie