Keyboard cable lenght limit?

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Keyboard cable lenght limit?

Post by night » Sun Oct 20, 2002 2:19 pm

Does anyone know if there is a limit to how long a keboard cable can be and still work?

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Post by Valerian » Sun Oct 20, 2002 3:36 pm

depends... USB cables have a length limit, but if it's not a USB keyboard then I'd say anything up to 20 feet or so would be fine...

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ugh

Post by night » Sun Oct 20, 2002 3:44 pm

It wouldnt be a USB cable and I need about 100ft, my guess is im SOL.

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Post by Grakun » Sun Oct 20, 2002 5:22 pm

only one way to find out... try it and see...

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Post by gingertips » Thu Oct 24, 2002 9:55 am

there are extender kits that could do 100ft no probs, but i dont think its cheap

Heres one example:

http://catalog.blackbox.com/bboxuk/Temp ... ender+Hubs


I know im gonna regret asking, but why 100Ft?! Why does your PC need to be 100ft away from the keyboard??? we might be able to come up with cheaper and better solution.
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Why 100 ft?

Post by night » Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:12 am

Ok heres why. My second comp is down the hall in another room. I used MQ to bot my second char, a druid to Plevel chars. Since MQ seems a bit risky and all these days I thought that if I had a keyboard cable long enough I could really accomplish what I wanted to do by using the "in game" macros. Since I had this crazy Idea though, I went and checked out EQW and that has been working great. MQ is a great program, but since I wasnt using MQ for tradeskills or plat, I find that EQW allows me to bot a second char without the worry. Thanks for trying to help out, it was a silly idea anyways now that I think about it.

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Post by theafkxper » Mon Oct 28, 2002 10:16 pm

hehe, yeah ithink i would sooner let MQ run than try to type commands in from 100 feet away, everybody knows i cant type worth a night with yer great great grandmother ;)

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Post by boldor » Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:05 pm

Wireless Mouse and Keyboard, Issue closed. :P

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Post by gingertips » Thu Oct 31, 2002 7:19 am

theres a nice druid.mac macro elsewhere on this forum that is perfect for your needs m8 - u can still run the 2 accounts on same pc with eqw if u wish, but it just makes life a hell of a lot easier
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