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Old 13th September 2007   #3
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Originally Posted by Jeff16years View Post
i bought an adat type cable (at least that's what i thought) but I can't get anything to sync while using it. just pops, clicks and invalid clock errors

did i get the wrong calbe? it's 50' long and installed in my wall/ceiling. i thought that they are all the same.

thanks
-jeff
They are all the same. Mattasbob's right; it's probably length that's your issue. You can go a bit longer than 15 feet with good cable, but not much more without introducing errors.

You can get toslink repeaters that work well, and Hear Technologies makes a toslink to ethernet conversion that allows you to extend the run hundreds of feet, up to 500, if I recall.
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