[AusNOG] Favourite USB to serial adapter cable

[Alexander Neilson]

I believe the get console cable uses the FTDI Chip. I had forgotten the name.

The FTDI Chips are very often faked and I have had some experience with their fakes appearing in products I have brought (mainly from internet suppliers out of the east). For me the get console cables are high quality, well priced, and shipped from nearby but other places have other options (including Element14)

My advice is to stick one into each bag you take around just in case one gets lent out and doesn’t come back so quickly.

Regards
Alexander

Alexander Neilson
Neilson Productions Limited

alexander at neilson.net.nz
+64 21 329 681
+64 22 456 2326

> On 4/01/2015, at 7:21 pm, Phill Proud <phill at proud.id.au> wrote:
> 
> No love for FTDI chipset based adapters? I've never had an issue with them as long as the chip is genuine, works out of the box on Windows (with updates via Windows update), OS X, Android and likely most *nix distros. Apologies if some of the commercial names mentioned earlier use FTDI chips.
> 
> They also provide you with the software to reprogram the chips behaviour/pin outs etc (FT_PROG). Very useful! 
> 
> Phill
> 

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