[AusNOG] Favourite USB to serial adapter cable

[Ben Hohnke]

Personally I use the ATEN, its fine and it works. If you don't use it with
Teraterm (i.e use PuTTy, SecureCRT, etc), you will get random bluescreens.

I've had good luick with the Belkin F5u257, we use these ones for our field
guys who aren't very IT Savvy (Plug it in and set up Teamviewer).

I've heard great things about Startech kit - https://www.startech.com/. The
good thing about these ones is no matter what USB port you plug it in to,
it keeps the same COM port #. I haven't had a chance to get my hands on one
though.



On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:13 PM PRK <ausnog at digitaljunkie.net> wrote:

> Resurrecting this thread (new Mac, no USB Serial Adapter).
>
> Do people still recommend the ATEN? I’ve heard it’s harder to get hold of
> these days and doesn’t have much ongoing support, as it was acquired by
> Prolific?
>
> Are the Keyspan or genuine Prolifics easy enough to find in Australia?
>
> prk
>
>
> > On 4 Jan 2015, at 20:35, Shane Chrisp <shane at 2000cn.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/01/15 20:30, Nick Gale wrote:
> >
> > Another +1 for the Aten units. The newest version work on the Surface
> Pro 3 tablets too.
> >
> >
> >> Another +1 for the aten unit. Been through a few different usb to serial
> >> cables and this is by far the most reliable I have had.
> >>
> >> On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Greg Lipschitz <Greg at thesummitgroup.com.au
> >> <mailto:Greg at thesummitgroup.com.au>> wrote:
> >>
> >>    +1 for the Aten units. Can get them from Anyware.
> >>
> >>    Work well cross platform and across different devices.
> >>
> >>    Cheers,
> >>
> >>    Greg
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    On 4 Jan 2015, at 15:59, Radek Tkaczyk <radek at tkaczyk.id.au
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> >>
> >>>    Hi Guys,____
> >>>
> >>>    __ __
> >>>
> >>>    What are people’s preferred USB to serial adapter cable to use
> >>>    with Cisco console cables these days? I have tried many over the
> >>>    years, and they are either unreliable, have driver issues, or blue
> >>>    screen Windows too frequently.____
> >>>
> >>>    __ __
> >>>
> >>>    Don’t care about price – just want the most reliable one out there
> >>>    – Windows preferred, but if it works with Mac too that’s a
> bonus.____
> >>>
> >>>    __ __
> >>>
> >>>    Thanks____
> >>>
> >>>    __ __
> >>>
> >>>    Radek____
> >>>
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