Antman Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Hello! I'm in the process of setting up an ADS-B receiver, similar to the setup Hak5 have used on the show. My house is on the top of a tall hill and overlooks quite a bit of our city so it is a great spot. I was going to make an antenna and then mount the USB receiver to it and use a USB extension to run it back to my PC (Putting antenna on my roof). I noticed you can get ACTIVE extensions as well a USB - Cat5e/6 extender. I would like to use a Cat5 one as I have plenty of this cable around. (Probably 30 meters should cut it). I would also like one that I don't have to power at the other end for obvious reasons. I have found a inexpensive USB1.1 - Cat6 converter that says it supports up to 50m. This looks good HOWEVER is USB1.1 fast enough for the DVB-T Stick I will be using? I would think it should be fast enough as it's only transferring small amounts of actual data but I wasn't sure if the stick would have an issue with this. Any help would be appreciated! SHORT VERSION - Will my DVB-T USB Tuner I am using for ADS-B (Yes it's the right chipset etc.) be fine over a USB1.1 extension? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 A different thread on this forum mentioned the concept of ACARS decoding on a Pi and at the bottom of that page you are explicitly warned that you must have USB2.0 as USB1.1 isn't fast enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 The cat5 adapters require power on both ends I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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