Posted by Randy Yates on 11/09/06 01:29

"Richard Harison" <noway@invalid.com> writes:

> Cable length does make a difference as to how fast a signal travels between the
> input of the cable and the output. Signal passing through as 6' cable takes
> twice as long as one through a 3' cable. The bugaboo is since that signal is
> traveling at the speed of light, now many gizzilionths of a second is that?

About six nanoseconds. (Rough rule-of-thumb is 1 nsec/foot.) "Nano" is 1x10^(-9).

--RY

>
> --
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> Richard Harison
> "Matthew L. Martin" <nothere@notnow.never> wrote in message
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>> Guest wrote:
>>
>> Complete nonsense, snipped!
>>
>> The clock in embedded in the signal. The data arrives with its own clock,
>> there is no "faster" or "slower". Anything other than correct is broken. That
>> is how digital transmission works.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
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>> You can't win
>> You can't break even
>> You can't get out of the game
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