RE: Re: AVR300 now [ADVERT] Ethernet to Serial Adaptors

["Ian Davidson" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'd just like to add that I use the redirector and some of the mss100's I
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urchased from Kevin and they work extremely well. We finished our 17km
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last week and now it is fully operational I added a MSS100 to the far end =
of the link to control some of our transmitters at that site. I can know
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n the control software on my office PC which links to our first mast then
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n to the second via the microwave link. As far as the software is concern
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he kit is plugged into the local serial port and runs perfectly, no more
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ips to site with the laptop now!

Ian D
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 08 October 2004 12:16
To: Ian
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: AVR300 now [ADVERT] Ethernet to Serial Adaptors


Hi Paul,

Yes they have a piece of Windows software called 'Redirector' that basi=
cally maps a serial port within Windows to an IP address and an MSS100.
You=
create virtual ports in Windows eg COM7 or COM66 to accomplish this. When=
ever your application opens the port it just uses the MSS100
automatically,=
transparently connecting to the Ethernet serial port and the remote device=
. The MSS100 can be remote (anywhere on the internet) indeed two MSS100 ca=
n connect to each other to form a serial tunnel  if you wanted, no PC
requi=
red.  They also support one to many operation.

This works with virtually all Windows applications nowadays - however i=
t is to do with the way the application is written & how it accesses
the se=
rial ports - Anything that runs under recent Windows versions (postWin 98
-=
eg NT XP 2000 2003 ME) should be fine. Some older apps were able to write=
directly to serial I/O hardware and bypass the OS which could cause proble=
ms. However there are almost none of these apps now remaining.  These work
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well with HomeVision, Comfort, Meteor CID, Alarm panels, HiFi Amps, VIOM ,
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printers etc.  If anyone ever had a problem with a  particular application
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I would always refund
anyway- but so far I haven't had a single return and there's a couple of
hu=
ndred out there in UKHA land .=20

BTW  Laser have them on their site to for anyone who prefers to purchase
us=
ing credit cards.

Kevin

Product details on the Lantronics site here *

http://tinyurl.com/3spjh*



Paul Gale wrote:

>Refresh my mind Kevin - do these come with a Windows driver to allow a
ser=
ial application to access them over the network? Do they work with any
appl=
ication?
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>Ta,
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>Paul.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
>>Sent: 08 October 2004 01:05
>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: AVR300 now [ADVERT]
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>>And I have a bunch of them from a previous bulk buy still at =A349
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>>anyone's interested....
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>>Basically they are Ethernet to Serial Convertors
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>>Tony Butler said...
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>>really...... And if you used a MSS100 you could access it across
your
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>>A what???
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>>... The funny thing is that Tony has actually got a  couple of
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>>K
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>>alanmiddleton74 wrote:
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>>>It allows you to access serial devices over the network -
>>>http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-
>>>servers/mss100.html
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>>>hth,
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>>>Alan.
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>>>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Steve Abbott"
<steve.abbott@f...>
>>>wrote:
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>>>>Sorry if this is a dumb question, I've had a hard day!
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>>>>What's a MSS100 ?
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: rectorydp [mailto:dpullen@f...]
>>>>Sent: 07 October 2004 14:21
>>>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>>>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: AVR300
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>>>>Tony
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>>>>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, lists@a... wrote:
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>>>>>>should be relatively easy to write a connector for
the Arcam
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>>>that
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>>>>>>runs on a PC that is connected to the Arcam. The
connector
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>>>could do
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>>>>>>all the work of converting between the Arcam
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>>>xAP/xPL.
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>>>>>hmmm....
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>>>>really...... And if you used a MSS100 you could access it
across
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>>>your network!
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>>>>>>bonus as I have found very few AV receivers with
the
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that you can
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>>>>perfect but
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>>>>>excellent!
>>>>>This sounds more and more like a winner here....have
you found any
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>>>>decent
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>>>>>prices on it.  Best I could get was =A31200 on the web
somewhere....
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>>>>I think you will struggle to find much of a discount. The
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>>>>BR
>>>>David
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