DriverGenius USB to RS-232 Serial Converter – 4-Ports Serial
DriverGenius USB to RS-232 Serial Converter – 4-Ports Serial DB9 COM Adapter for Windows Only, 4XRS232-B
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DriverGenius USB to RS-232 Serial Converter – 4-Ports Serial DB9 COM Adapter for Windows Only, 4XRS232-B
I thought the installation disk was a quaint reminder of the good old days of pre windows Vista. At work we have on a standalone network XP sp3, vista, win8 windows 8.1 and windows 10 plus various flavours of unix and a single mac OS. I had fun installing and trying this adapter across all of these and i have to say i’m impressed it installed without issue on each and every one! Great trouble free use of the serial com port (via usb) across a range of devices. I liked the reliability and the ease of reconfiguring (all done at the device driver panel). User manuals take a little bit of technical know how but they are nicely on the disk and extra manuals where needed in other folders. The connectors are all quality as is the thick but very flexible cables. Overall happy to say this is well designed and very useful indeed especially for the newer systems. Highly recommended. Andrew
I have several older MCU and FPGA evaluation boards that require an RS232 hook-up. This adapter works perfectly for that. It’s more or less plug and play and it easily installed on my Windows 7 desktop. Absolutely no complaints!
Very happy!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! AAA+++
Worked a treat, no problem, showed up in Linux as a USB device (/dev/ttyUSB0) and in Windows as a COM Port (COM3) once installed. I DID NOT USE THE INCLUDED DRIVER DISC, and I dont think you should either… Personal opinion that…
I used this with Termite, PuTTY and SSH/Bash in Linux no problems.
Fairly nice build quality, plastic, but decent all around.
The major downer for me was the size of the RS232 connection end, it is just HUGE heavy and even gets in the way of using it’s own screw fasteners.
PCs generally don’t come with serial ports built-in these days, so if you need to plug into a legacy device such as a modem or terminal, then this is the kind of cable you need.
I tried this cable under Windows, on a Mac and also Linux, and in each case it was recognized as USB serial port and installed without any additional software. There is a CD-ROM with it, but it wasn’t needed and I’m not sure what the contents are there. The unit has a ‘bump’ in the cable, a small box with red (power) and blue (data) LEDs set in it. The overall length is about 1m, and is quite rugged looking. It’s not the cheapest serial cable, but it works well.