USB to RS232 – USB Converter Cable

Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 5:37 am

Manufacturer: Psylins
Customer Rating:
List Price: Varies based on product options
Sale Price: £0.91
Availibility: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Free Shipping Available
Buy Now

Product Description

Easily connect your serial RS232 device, such as Mobile Phone, Digital Camera, Modem, PDA or ISDN terminal, to a USB port on a PC or laptop with this high quality Serial RS232 Convertor.

Product Details

Full compliance with USB specification.
Converts a USB port for use with serial devices
Over 1 Mbps data transfer rate.
MS Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP.

Video Reviews

No video reviews found for this product.

Customer Reviews

Good stuff

Review Date: May 11, 2008

Reviewer: Alistair Smith, Somerset, UK

Bought whizzy new PC (Dell with Vista) - but oh dear, no RS232 port for my faithful old Garmin hand-held GPS. Bought this little cracker, sets up a treat and immediately appears as 'COM 3' in the device manager.

I guarantee you won't tell the difference between this and a 'real' serial port, at the expense of using up another USB socket of course.

Great little product!

USB to RS232 - USB Converter Cable

Review Date: February 21, 2008

Reviewer: Peter Hedges, Beaconsfield, UK

I needed an RS232-USB converter cable to convert a Garmin GPS serial cable to work with a laptop running Vista. This item is a good price and delivery was within a couple of days as expected.

When I connected it up Windows did an online search for a driver and I had it working within minutes. All I had to do was change the port setting in the software I was using and I was connected to my GPS and able to transfer files between the laptop and my GPS. No problems.

Couldn't make it work, but help was at hand

Review Date: March 2, 2008

Reviewer: Steve Gerrish, UK

Bought this cable, and the little CD that came with it clearly assumed a greater level of knowledge than I possessed! I was lost and couldn't install a driver for it. Then I found the link to the seller (Aquarius Computers) and an invitation to contact via a contact form. This was 2.30pm on a Saturday, and by 4pm same day I had a reply pointing me at a site to directly download the driver, which was straightforward to install. Everything working smoothly now.
If you have the same problem (I have XP and using the cable to run an external modem) Google "PL-2303 Software and Drivers" (include the double quotes) and choose the link ending ID=31. There, on the Prolific Technology Inc. site, you will find a file to download called wd_pl2303_v20019v2028.zip. Caters for Win98SE/ME and Win2K/XP/2003.

Just Works with Linux

Review Date: February 27, 2008

Reviewer: G. Hewson,

Short review: I plugged the converter into a laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and set CuteCom to use /dev/ttyUSB0. Voila!

Longer review: This is made by NEWLink Products (I'm not allowed to post a URL, but it's the top result in Google). It doesn't seem to be exactly the same as the NLUSB-0039 described in their Web catalogue, but it's close enough.

"lsusb -v" shows the chipset is a Prolific PL2303, but in fact it's a PL2303X, since bMaxPacketSize0 is 64. (Google "prolific pl2303x linuxquestions" and see the answer at the bottom of the top result.) Nevertheless, Gutsy correctly initialises the device.

Works with Windows Vista!

Review Date: December 11, 2007

Reviewer: Pitbull, Bristol, UK

Fantastic - something that actually works with Windows Vista! Connected up my old Psion Series 5 with no problems, unlike everything else I've tried to get working on Microsoft's latest operating system, which appears to have either not been tested at all, or purposely designed so that you have to buy all new hardware and software! Definitely deserves five stars.

Tagged with: Computer Accessories • Computer Accessories Uk • Computers and Accessories • USB to RS232 - USB Converter Cable