Giant 20' x 3' x 2' router build

[Jonathan]

The solution to the capacitance issue, if that's what it is, is to buffer the switches locally. It's not clear to me where the switches are located but a simple transistor or IC buffer would fix it at very low cost and could handle multiple switches if they are close together.

That's far too logical a suggestion for this discussion ;)

If charlie's keen he could put differential signalling ICs (e.g. MAX488) on both ends and may alleviate problems later on. They're low cost and easy to implement since the circuit's in the datasheet...probably excessive though so personally I'd try a transistor first as it'd take 2 mins to test.