What Serial to Ethernet Connector’s сustomers say
Perfect for (old) software and games using serial ports
Self, I don’t have any serial ports on my computer and that is sometimes a bit tricky. As I saw another review here, Serial to Ethernet Connector is absolutely perfect for games from the early 2000’s that make use of serial ports for LAN multiplayer. And thanks to this software I’m able to relive my youth with my friends. But it doesn’t stop there, also laying a connection between a Raspberry Pi with a thermometer hooked up to its pins to monitor the temperature there over the internet.
When I installed the software it was a bit tricky to set up, but when I got the hang of it and understood the concept it went more than fluently.
Overall, perfect for legacy to modern connections and interface is very intuitively based and therefore easy to route trough.
Daniël
Excellent Option for communication
An excellent option for communication between Ethernet-enabled devices and legacy software that only handles serial ports. It’s easy and simple, and above all, 100% compatible with Windows Server.
Good for gaming, too!
A little outside the use case of most of the reviewers, I found Serial to Ethernet Connector while working on a personal project to set up older Windows XP-era games in multiplayer. We have one system on original hardware and multiple VMs on more recent hardware (read: lacking physical serial ports). With some games need a serial connection for multiplayer and the systems are already networked together, this was the perfect solution. I found it intuitive to use and it worked exactly as I needed out of the box. Legacy support for down to Windows XP is perfect in this case and the free licenses for non-commercial use is much appreciated!
Controlling remote antenna rotator
I use a serial to Ethernet virtual port in a system to control a remote HF antenna rotator over the internet. The antenna rotator is typically controlled on-site via a serial COM port with a rotator app. In my use case the rotator is at 100 mile distance from the controlling PC. To manage I use a serial-to-Ethernet server at the remote antenna site and in the controlling site the Electronic Team serial to Ethernet app provides the required virtual port for the rotator PC application.
First I had some problems with overlapping virtual serial ports because Windows (11) OS is rather bad in managing them. After deleting the old/non-used serial ports the virtual port created by ET app worked perfectly.
The ET app has worked reliably and is also easy to configure. Reliability is obviously a key requirement in my application because of the remote set-up. Because of this good experience I plan to start controlling the remote antenna amplifier also via the same concept.
Serial to ethernet connector
The software is easy to configure and provides an excellent experience for any type of user, an effective and intuitive interface