Customer Ratings & Reviews

Good cable, worked well to communicate with networking devices.

Excellent product could have been a bit longer other than that the design was great!

This adapter works great! I bought it to connect my laptop to my Ham radio so I can do packet data transmissions. It is working flawlessly and the price was a bargain! I just connected it to my laptop while connected to my home wireless network and the drivers loaded automatically. Easy as pie.

So..I’m starting to build my lab and needed a console cable for my routers. I originally was looking for a rollover Ethernet cable, but didn’t want to pay $30+ for it or continue to drive around town to different store. Thankfully, I found half of a Ethernet to RS232 at work. From there a quick Google search led me to Best Buy who had an open box for $8 cheaper than original price. Since purchase I have been able to get my routers setup and can focus my attention on purchasing some switches.

As an Engineer, this was cheap, fast, easy to use for older plc that need rs-232

Overall experience: Mostly positive with a crucial caveat An RS-232 to USB adapter does exactly what it's supposed to: it bridges the gap between older hardware with serial ports and modern computers that only have USB ports. For many users, this is a lifesaver, and the adapter performs reliably. However, the quality of the internal chipset and the included drivers can significantly impact your experience. While most adapters work for simple tasks, buyers should be cautious with cheaper, generic models.

The only con i have about this is that it could be longer. If I have to extend it, then I need to get a male to female serial cable, which can be hard to locate today. This cable is purely for connecting a computer (usually a newer laptop) without a serial port to a device which has a serial port for input/output. There are several of these on the market, but can be hard to find locally. This cable does its job, its screw pins are correct to the standard (which sometimes on generic or chinese made cables, are wrong) the screws do not fall off easy (which has always been an issue on serial cables, not just the adapters) and its flexible enough to get into tight spaces. I'm using it with a USB C to USB A adapter on a macbook which only has a USB C cable, and with the proper drivers, it works well on both mac and windows. Works fine for me, just wish i had a longer one.

Worked great on plug in. Need for a usb to device connection. Could be a little longer tho

Needed a serial port, this did the trick! east driver install, worked perfectly.

Great cable I just should have bought a longer one. Did exactly as needed

Well, new computers no longer come with a 9 pin jack to connect printers to. As I have an old tag printer which connects to the computer using a 9 pin cable and my new computer does not have a 9 pin jack, the only way I could figure out how to connect it was with a 9 pin x USB adapter. I use to the printer to print plant tags for our orchid plants when we divide and re-pot them. Once the drivers were installed on the computer, we were back in the tag printing business. Cable worked great.

This adapter saved me! I have an engine analyzer which has a DB9 output connector, but my laptop has no DB9. The manual includes a link to download drivers, so here's a hint: read the instructions! I had to install the drivers for Windows7 twice (did I mention RTFM?), but the bits played together nicely after the second go. The installation is not hard, you just need to watch the sequence, no big deal. I'm a very happy camper.

This is the simplest way to adapt new pc to older hardware - worked perfect

If you have a laptop without a serial port, like most do nowadays, this cable is a must have. It allows you do connect devices that require an RS-232 port over USB (must install drivers on laptop to use). One minor nuance is I do wish the cable was slightly longer, other than that, works well.

Works exactly as advertised. This is a good quality cable and was kept in stock at my local Best Buy. My girlfriend needed it urgently to replace the old one for her Stenograph machine, and we are very happy with the results. Keep in mind that the length is quite short, so make sure to get the appropriate length for your needs.

Needed to connect some legacy equipment to a newer PC. I was shocked that BB had these in stock in a local store when everyone else that sells them wants to ship it. Worked flawlessly. No installation of external drivers needed, Windows 10 did it all. Perfect solution.

This a great adapter with solid drivers which are essential for this to function.

I bought this thinking I needed to use it to access a kernel crash dump; when hooking up a KVM switch to a running system, the newly connected USB ports are not recognized on a VMware ESX server, so the server has to be rebooted to establish connection. You can't login to the server and issue a command to rescan the ports because it is hung in a kernel crash dump. The cable was too short to be able to be used for this application; I could have bought or found an extender cable, but my manager didn't want me touching the systems because they were being used for long running tests, so I returned the adapter. I didn't get a chance to see if it would have had a live connection to the crash dump.

Hard to find, best buy got it, plug and play and works fine.

It does the job what it was designed for, converted my old monitor As an add on to the laptop