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(More customer reviews)Some people have had an easy time installing this cable and others couldn't get it to work at all. Why is that?
Whether this cable works or doesn't work with particular drivers depends on the chip used in it. To find this out you have to connect the cable, go to Device Manager, right click on Properties, select the Details tab. Under Properties select Hardware IDs, then read what it says under Values. The cable I bought was USB\VID_058F&PID_9720. If you check the driver downloads from Sabrent they are good for an evidently much later version VID_067B&PID_2303, so the drivers from Sabrent's site won't work with the cable I bought. Since my inclination is to always download the latest drivers I wasted a lot of time on this!
If you have a cable with a later chip in it you may be OK. Or you may be OK with the drivers that come on the included CD. If none of these work you can try searching the net for drivers for the particular chip you have. The responsible thing for Sabrent to have done is to have all legacy drivers available on their web site.
After much wasted time I was finally able to get this cable to work. After a search I found the drivers in the download section at hiti dot com for a CS-320 card printer that uses the same kind of usb to serial controller. However, I was close to giving up so this cable (as many of the reviewers apparently did) so this cable came close to being absolutely useless to me. Installing a cable should be easier than this and for that I fault Sabrent for their lack of communication / transparency and as well for their non-support for older versions of their product. And that's why I gave this only two stars.
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Sabrent SBT-USC1M Hi-Speed USB 2.0 to Serial (9-pin) DB-9 RS-232 Adapter Cable (1-foot, Blue)Product Description: The Sabrent USB 2.0 to DB9 Serial Adapter connects your USB port to the Serial RS-232 port. It is designed for connections to cellular phones, PDAs, digital cameras, modems, or ISDN terminal adapters through your USB port with up to 1-Mbps data transfer rate. Since the adapter uses no IRQs, it is perfect if you need many serial devices attached to your PC. It converts a standard 9-pin serial port to USB, and provides a 96 byte buffer for each upstream and downstream data transfer. This adapter employs full speed USB communication and is bus powered.
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