How reliable are usb to serial adapters? A friend does high end home theatre installation, and is looking to buy a new laptop. He needs to interact with a myriad of apps that use the serial port to ...

Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters ...

Housed in a ruggedized, overmolded enclosure, the SeaLINK+232-DB9 from Sealevel Systems is a single-port USB-to-RS-232 serial adapter that affords both durability and reliability in challenging ...

Joining Sealevel Systems’ SeaLink USB-to-serial product line are two desktop adapters: the SeaLink+4.SC and SeaLink+8.SC, offering four and eight serial ports, respectively. Each port is ...

Keyspan on Wednesday announced support for Intel-based Macs with its line of USB serial adapters and remote controls. The software is available for download from Keyspan’s Web site. The updates ...

When it comes to server consoles, users have two major options, graphical or text. I personally prefer a serial console to a graphical one, and this preference isn't all rooted in snobbery. Serial ...

Expanding the SeaLINK USB family, the SeaLINK+I.DIN (Item# 2113) and SeaLINK+2I.DIN (Item# 2213) optically isolated USB to RS-232/-422/-485 adapters offer one or two serial ports, respectively, and ...

I recently schmoozed my manager into approving a nice 15" Powerbook, and I'm finding I miss my serial ports. Does anybody have experience with a good USB serial adapter with OSX drivers? I'm eyeing ...

We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as as cleverly designed as this one from ...