[Elecraft] Ethernet serial servers... Re: USB to serial angst

[Don Wilhelm]

Tom,

Those show promise.  Keep us posted on the results of your experiments.
What about latency?  Does it work with QSK CW?  How to handle the audio 
channel? 

To successfully work with existing applications, they would have to be 
addressable as a com port to any computer on the network.

Since those adapters are for industrial applications rather than 
consumer, I would expect them to be less 'flaky'.  That goes for the USB 
to serial adapters for industrial use as well - I noted that NetEon has 
industrial USB to RS-232 adapters too.

73,
Don W3FPR

Tom Azlin N4ZPT wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> Several of us are playing with Ethernet hosted serial servers that plug 
> into a router and have a one or more serial connectors. Put the serial 
> server at a remote site like a repeater site with internet then run 
> redirecter software on your local computer. Poof, you have one or more 
> serial ports tunneled across the Internet. No computer needed at the far 
> end. We have two different brands with two serial ports. Planning to 
> connect a TNC and a repeater controller this way.
>
> http://www.neteon.net/Category/340-3/Serial-to-Ethernet is one
> http://www.opengear.com/product-acm5000.html
> http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-servers/uds2100.html
>
> Is this what you mean by a plain Ethernet to serial converter?
>
> 73, Tom n4zpt
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