Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Michael Stone Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:10:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Richard Owlett X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Fri Jun 1 14:02:23 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.5 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MDO_CABLE_TV3=0.5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Mail-Followup-To: Richard Owlett , debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Fingerprint: 02D5 315F F11F 1861 860E 1E02 F61A ACDC FA11 FFDE User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/736187 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/52818018-65a3-11e8-9b6a-00163eeb5320@msgid.mathom.us Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 21 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:01:57 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <52818018-65a3-11e8-9b6a-00163eeb5320@msgid.mathom.us> X-Original-References: <56f43cee-aef1-e8f0-8cbb-8e5acd8188e3@cloud85.net> <20180531235819.GA14575@alum> <72bd206e-d68c-2dd5-0098-f89a6ec6b1ed@cloud85.net> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:196327 On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: >>(thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case I >>can see some justification for it because they describe the >>electronics hidden inside the plugs (we hope). >> >>But considering that two NICs cost less than that cable, I'd need a >>pressing reason to purchase the cable instead. > >There is a perceived elegance aspect. >There is also a practical aspect the only known working and >conveniently physically accessible ports are USB. USB-Ethernet dongles would be a lot more useful in the long term than USB-Serial dongles. RS-232 had a really good 40 year run, but for general communications it was mostly obsolete nearly 20 years ago. You mentioned file transfers--I can't think of any applications where that's going to be better over a pair of USB-Serial dongles than a pair of USB-Ethernet dongles. Mike Stone