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The USB cable supplied with my camera is not long enough to reach my ceiling mounted camera. Can I just buy an extension for it?

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The USB cable supplied with my camera is not long enough to reach my ceiling mounted camera. Can I just buy an extension for it?

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A. The USB standard specifies a maximum length of 5 metres (approx. 16 feet) for USB cables. Extension cables are available, but are not recommended. If a cable longer than 5 metres is required, use an ‘active repeater’ cable – essentially a cable with its own mini-hub built in to one end. You can ‘daisy-chain’ up to 5 five-metre cables, using 4 hubs, or 4 ‘active repeaters’, plus one plain cable, to give a maximum of 25 metres (80 feet). Our own setup at Scenes has two repeater cables joined together to give us the necessary reach.