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Tony Atkin wrote:
In an ideal world USB cable would extend as far as you need and you would be able to run the connections back from scanners to server. But as 5 metres seems to be the limit, the only way to do this would be with some sort of extension device (usb -> cat5 -> usb).
USB allows 4 hubs I think, so 5 x 4.8 meters is your limit. You can get "active cables", where the hubs are alledgedly built into the cable, which are just under 25 meters. They weren't too expensive when I last looked, but we figured out how to solve that one over 100Mbps ethernet, so I never bought one to try.
My uneducated guess is that this might turn out to be just as costly as buying hp network scanners. A cheap but unelegant solution would be to rescue some redundent low-end pc's, set them up with suitable interface cards and run them as scanner servers.
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