I have had experience with Lantronix products and the Ethernet to Serial device. Lantronix does know both areas...serial and ethernet. I used these devices connecting Laboratory devices (chemistry - Blood Analyzers, and a host of other critical hospital laboratory devices) to the network which were them access via the software running on the server. The program could read and write to the medical equipment very well and worked in critical applications all through an IP address on the network.
These were critical systems....information that were sent to Docs to treat patients. It went perfectly. I would think that these devices would be perfect to controlling a rig on a network. In the medical field, we were not worried about timing latency because it was not "super-real-time" as it would be in sending Code or Voice. We were sending chunks of data. So, your mileage may vary. I do have a lot of confidence in the Lantronix products and customer support was superb. Lee - K0WA Ham Radio Operators: Kansas QSO Party is August 28-29, 2010. See www.ksqsoparty.org for details In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine? Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my mind. - J. Wolf ________________________________ From: Tom Azlin N4ZPT <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 15, 2010 11:05:41 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Ethernet serial servers... Re: USB to serial angst Hi Don, Several of us are playing with Ethernet hosted serial servers that plug into a router and have a one or more serial connectors. Put the serial server at a remote site like a repeater site with internet then run redirecter software on your local computer. Poof, you have one or more serial ports tunneled across the Internet. No computer needed at the far end. We have two different brands with two serial ports. Planning to connect a TNC and a repeater controller this way. http://www.neteon.net/Category/340-3/Serial-to-Ethernet is one http://www.opengear.com/product-acm5000.html http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-servers/uds2100.html Is this what you mean by a plain Ethernet to serial converter? 73, Tom n4zpt On 3/15/2010 12:04 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > So show me an Ethernet to serial converter that can live at a device > location without the need for a computer at the device end and I will > concede. A plain Ethernet to serial converter is not that sophisticated > (unless someone has found one that I have not looked at, or the price > for the embedded copmuter is excessive). > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
