Brian,
Please define "dead-end?"
All my clients and server play USB happily ATM.
If I read your share in the harshest terms, you'd have me dust-bin a
working UPS,
and, spend $2100 to upgrade my home to Win7pro/Server 2008r2.
Did I miss something?
Duncan
On 04/04/2011 16:57, Brian Weeden wrote:
Completely agree. No sense wasting money on something that is already a
dead-end.
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Brian
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Winterlight<[email protected]>wrote:
I wouldn't buy anything that did not have Win7 64 bit support . I still
use a 90s voice modem as a message Fax center, primarily because the
software I use can record phone calls which I often do when speaking to my
CPA , attorney, tenants, or even tech support.
When I built my machine in 08 I used Asus Formula Maximus II which has no
serial ports. Like you I went looking for an adaptor and I found a
reasonably priced one at monoprice.com . It worked in Vista 64 with a
signed driver work around, but then Vista SP1 came along and plugged the
hole and then it stopped working because VSP1 and Windows 7 require signed
certified drivers. So then I had to buy a 30 dollar adaptor with signed
certified drivers.
Signed certified drivers will allow you an upgrade path and may be more
stable over all.
At 01:15 PM 4/4/2011, you wrote:
Looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232006&cm_re=serial_to_usb-_-12-232-006-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156008&cm_re=serial_to_usb-_-12-156-008-_-Product
Personally I favor Vantec over Sabrent.
Both read as USB hubs that will register in DM. Plan to use on an old
Serial-only APC BP1100 UPS. Wish to use as back-up, and, test to figure out
whether a newer APC UPS is being "USB-comm-silly." Another working project!
Plan to order one of the above with 15ft Non-Active USB extension cable.
Opinions welcome!
Best, Duncan
