Well, my primary use of usb serial ports is not for connecting another computer (DTE wired equipment) but for connecting to serial-controlled audio visual gear (DCE wired equipment). The point of a usb serial adapter is to give you that serial port your laptop is missing... so it should be male and wired DTE. If you need to connect to other DTE equipment, you need a cable. On Dec 2, 2015 6:46 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Presumably because PC com ports are also male and whatever you would have > > plugged into that port or the USB converter replacing it would therefore > > have a female connector; female<->female adapters are cheap. A female > 25pin > > RS-232 port as in the M100 is relatively unusual, and is/was a parallel > > printer port in the PC world. > > > > m > > > > Maybe anything with active electronics should be female. > > Then you can use the little thin-hood couplers/gender changers to make > the final connection. > > -- John. >
