I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port ...

In my line of work I use serial on a near daily basis. Currently, I have 3 different USB>Serial cables; an IO Gear GUC232A, a Cables to Go (Prolific PL2302 chipset) and a older Radio Shack cable (with ...

After connecting a device with a serial port with the computer via the Prolific PL2303 cable, some users have received the following error message: Please install the ...

If you look at a spec sheet for one of the best gaming laptops or best gaming PCs you might see it listed with a USB4 port, a ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

Universal Serial Bus has been the de facto standard for sending information to and from computer peripherals for almost two decades, but despite the word “universal” in the name this wasn’t always the ...

In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

Have you ever wondered whether your USB ports are really delivering maximum power? There are several ways to find out. Windows offers you built-in functions to check the performance of your USB ports.