Thanks crapflinger. You know, I already have this fancy stuff in
the house and some $20 cameras, the transeivers... why pay for the
boosters when I can really screw things up. It's a lot more fun
too. Now, I have several 5v adapters for defunct peripherals like
iomega drives and the like. Would those work for power sources?
Or should I use old computer power supplies? The cameras
are just...
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well...in theory....if you took the data from the usb to an rj45
connection, and plugged that into the transeiver it MIGHT actually send
the data...then just wire in a 5v source for the power directly to the device
these
can get a little expensive...but USB boosters can get you up
to 150' without modifying the cable
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cornflake000 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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ReCreate replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
because of the way USB works, This is impossible, USB is too
universal(aka the name), the data is digital, a signal.
Though you could set up something like a microcontroller to receive and
interpret the data into on's and off's to be sent that way.
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cornflake000 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I take it then that the camera is analog and the computer it's connected
to is "decoding" it. Is that right? Does a usb hub
decode it? If the usb camera plugged into a usb hub that is
usually conected to the lan were transfered through the fiber instead,
would that work or does the hub also need processing? Maybe I'm
back to cat5 in that case.
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cornflake000 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Well, I guess I answered some of my own questions. Looking around
it seems you actually can run usb over fiber in similar fashion to what
crapflinger stated. But I also found that running composite or
s-video was a better choice for the transfer over the fiber cable.
I decided to go with composite wired cat5 to the rack, to converter,
fiber across the building to another converter strait to ...
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