Gigaware 6-ft. USB-A to Serial Cable

"the internal chip set will not work when trying to connect a Yaesu ham radio to the PC via serial/USB... causes crashes and reboots."

"I bought one three years ago, and it has worked flawlessly for me on Gateway, Dell and HP laptops running Windows XP and Vista. It has connected to my Palm, other computers, and numerous Cisco, Nortel, and Bay Network routers. I use it reguarly for my network consulting business. I had tried ones from other retailers and was not satisfied. Either they did not work or were unrelieable. This one worked from the start, and I have earned many times it's purchase price.



I am an advanced user, so understand how to set up the COM ports...this is the only difficulty I have had, with the exception of my son playing with it and leaving it where the dog could chew it to peices last night. Overall it has been a great product, but less advanced users might have problems setting up COM ports as the documentation does not go into great detail"

"I use this cable for programming PLC's (the ones that still require a serial connection).



I don't understand why everyone is calling this a piece of garbage. The device seems to be constructed well and has some nice features:



1- The 6ft. cable is nice because you don't need your own serial/usb extension cable. Others I have seen do not have this feature



2- the DB9 connector is high quality and doesn't have a plastic ridge that I have seen on other cables. The plastic ridge can get in the way with certain hardware. This one does not.



3- it allows communication to serial devices through a usb port...... just like it should



Some people complained that it doesn't work on Windows 7...... they must not know how to install it. I have Windows 7 64bit and it works. I didn't try the CD that was included. I just plugged it in. At first the driver wasn't found because I had turned off automatic updates. However, I allowed windows to look online for the driver and it installed immediately. I am very pleased so far."

"Great for interfacing Amateur Radio software to Yaesu radio interface parameters which are not as common... Yaesu uses 4800 baud, 8 bit,N parity and "2" stop bits. I have bought others that didn't work out. Using provided software and Vista (Premium) operating system, interface set up quickly and properly, Read instructions provided, carefully for no hassle set-up. Found in stock in two local small town RS stores. AC4PY"

"I got it to work with 32 bit Windows 7 RTM. I used the Vista driver from the Radio Shack site. The trick was to run my application as administrator so it could find its DLL files. Works fine with my software but I did see a message about DSR (Data Set Ready) constantly changing. My program does not use DSR for anything but it does report if it changes so that was not an issue. If yours does depend on DSR this cable may not work at least with Windows 7 - I have not tried to see if there is a way to stop this behavior yet."

"Win 7 64 bit users

Half of the users could not get the driver.

Half of the users had no problem.



I couldn't get it when I needed it most, so I was pretty frustrated. Back in the office I took more time and deleted the unknown device using Device Manager, then followed Windows' instruction to activate automatic updates while connected to the internet. This time, the device installed and now appears in DM under Ports."

"I have a number of usb-to-serial converter cables. These are all much cheaper that this one. About 1/4 the price. These have worked for everything so far, but just ran into a situation where they did not. I picked this up in hopes that it would and it did. I want to point out that I am using this with Win7-64 and it works. I just plugged it in and let windows find the correct driver. Thanks to the reviewer that pointed this out below. Luckily I didn't go by the many other reviews that say it doesn't work with 64-bit. I think this is crazy expensive, but I'm glad that I have a working solution. BTW, mine is black not blue like the one in the picture. Same item number, though. I assume this is the same product."

"(a few helpful notes for people maybe).



I also use this for programming PLC's with different computers and laptops(and other uses). --on the complaint it won't install windows 7 go to the VISTA directory and click on the SETUP manually and it WILL install. (it WILL NOT not install win7 from main menu).



---Other P to be aware of many software PKG's won't recognize com's higher then com 2 or com 4 in some cases. Make sure this is not the case (many softwares will configure if you modify the *.ini file. and see below.

---some PC motherboards have uncabled to serial ports which will be recognized by windows (so the com port can't be assigned 1-4 on adapter, disable ports in the computers bios.



---sometimes on boot serial port com location jumps to new location(software config'd will not see), examine in device manager if not being seen, see what new com port it has been assigned (and reassign manually if needed.

(has 6ft length some do not which is nice.



((many drivers which will not install directly to window7 (ver error) CAN be ported directly by manually transfereing from another machine with the right VER using driver backup software such as csharp driver backup once the driver(s) been unpacked, just click on backup location))."

"No hiccups on Win 7 64bit using Vista drivers.

Just need to remember to install drivers first.

For magic reason interface is not compatible with standard Windows/Linux driver set :( Or may be it is, but there is no documentations."

"I have used the older off-white version of this cable and been very happy. I was hoping this version would work with Windows 7 (64 bit enterprise) but it doesn't. I tried the XP2000 drivers that helped others on here but but it doesn't work. Maybe for 32 bit versions it still works but I am returning it for a product that is actually compatible with current operating systems."