[Elecraft] USB to serial angst

[Don Wilhelm]

Full Ethernet capability - including working directly as a network 
device - is in the future.  Full Ethernet capability reuires more than 
just an Ethernet to serial converter.  If the Ethernet connectio is 
nothing more than an Ethernet to serial converter, then why not stay 
with straight serial port point to point communications.  The addressing 
capability from a network is the advantage of Ethernet - the data to the 
device cnn be the same.

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).

73,
Don W3FPR

Ken Nicely wrote:
> You are certainly right that there would need to be some intelligence added
> in on the hardware side.  Some of the newer pic controllers like the
> pic18f87j60 (I happen to be playing with that one now) have much of the
> functionality built into the controller and there are libraries for the
> routines, so it is not such a big hurdle.  It would have to me made a
> priority by Elecraft and I am not so sure that there would be enough bang
> for the buck for them to justify the work.  I for one would buy an add on
> board that went right in the radio for say $100 or maybe even a little more,
> but I doubt I am in the majority.  I also would doubt that there would be
> enough people interested....even at that price.
>
> Ethernet is  definitely be something I will be looking for in future radios.
>
> I purchased a Datacom Networking ATC-1000 recently and had it working with
> the K3. It is an ethernet to serial port bridge device.  It worked fine as
> long as I was just talking to the K3 with one application, but as soon as I
> had its virtual port being referenced by LP Bridge there seemed to be too
> many layers of virtual ports and it became unstable.  I did not spend a lot
> of time trying to get it to work.  That is on my todo list.  I think I might
> be able to get it working well with some tinkering of the settings.
>
> Ken KE3C
>
>
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