Firewire cable length

Noel Evans

Mod V3 New and Improved
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Read this before somewhere and cant remember... is there any degradation in say a 30 ft fw cable?
 
No. In digital it either works or it doesn't. There isn't much middle ground!

(I suppose theoretically you might just get a very unlikely combination of cable length and cable connectors loss that was exactly at the failure threshold and the connection might then be intermittently unreliable.).

Edit: a poor quality cable with inadequate shielding might also be susceptible to outside interference and the longer the cable the more it would pick up interference.
 
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