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Old 13th September 2007   #4
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Originally Posted by travisbrown View Post
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.
Exactly...Too long. Matt & Travis are right on the money.
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