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Pros & Cons
Pros
Ftdi chipset was required to connect my elecraft k3 to my pc. Purchased this after trying another device based on the 'prolific' chipset. Fits 9 pin male nicely.
Purchased this, and crashing problem was immediately solved. The proper driver was quickly loaded. Worked fine. Plug and play.
Cons
Thumb screws to tighten them into a connector are very small, have no screw driver slot and near impossible to tighten. The computer (windows 7 pro) recognizes they are there, but i cannot get any device data to pass. This product is useless if you ar... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The quality of adapter is very good.
No problem with the adapter though, my own fault.
Product works and is a little heavy as it keeps falling out of socket, but it does the job
Competitiveness
I bought the ftdi version and it worked well with windows 11.
I've used this for simple terminal operations on cisco equipment on three different win10 computers, and it's pretty straightforward.
After having repeated random crashes i found online advice that the ftdi chipset may solve the issue.
The driver installed automatically under win10 (or perhaps i already had the driver installed from using a previous ftdi adapte... Read More
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serial, great, old, needed and easy. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 984 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 17 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And is only a fraction of the cost than uprevs example
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Consthe male connector version should have nuts not screws
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Comes with drivers but win10 does not autoinstall
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Overall im sure i could get this to work with win10 if i really wanted it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I ended up not even opening this one and returning it was easy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Other identical items i always had issues with working with some equipment and not with others
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then just launch putty for example select connection type serial and change the serial line to com3 or com5 whatever the computer decided on in device manager
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Was considering getting an adapter with a cable instead for that reason
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