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| Topic: | downloading problems This thread has 6 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday December 26, 2002 at 21:35 |
deez247 Long Time Member |
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I'm hoping that someone can help me, its probably a dumb question and it's right in front of my face, but, I've bought myself a new dell lap top, a big change from my compaq that was about 4 years old, but anywa i went to hook to a pronto and i realized there isn't any serial ports, so i'm being informed thst not to many lap tops have them any more, so they sold me an adapter which changes a usb to serial for pda's and they said this would work, but it does not, the port will open but the pronto will not comunicate back, and noones has been able to answer my questions. thanks
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| Post 2 made on Friday December 27, 2002 at 00:16 |
bomberjim Super Member |
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Did you tap the screen to wake up the remote prior to downloading? If that doesn't work, go to the Pronto forum and do a search on "usb adaptor". Some types work on some laptops, other types on others. Jim L 
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| Post 3 made on Friday December 27, 2002 at 19:56 |
Shoe Founding Member |
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Generally, from what I've seen and heard the PDA USB to serial coverters do not work. The Keyspan high speed USB to Serial DB converter has been working for me on several remote programming programs without problems.
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| Post 4 made on Saturday December 28, 2002 at 16:25 |
jayman Lurking Member |
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funny thing i came here with the same problem,,,please if someone can help me out,,,,i got this laptop to do prontos at work and now i cant i am really bummin,,where can i get this keyspan high speed usb to serial db converter and how much does it run,,,i bought a belkin usb to serial for pda's and is is junk it wont work,,,thanks all,,,and happy new year
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| Post 5 made on Saturday December 28, 2002 at 21:44 |
Ernie Bornn-Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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Better than any answer i can give you, go google.com and search for
keyspan "USB Adaptor"
Because "USB Adaptor" is in quotes, you won't get all twelve thousand entries that have "USB" or "adaptor" or both; adding "keyspan" will keep you from seeing all brands of usb adaptors.
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| Post 6 made on Sunday December 29, 2002 at 11:25 |
thebear Lurking Member |
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Most of the USB to RS232 I've tried didn't work...
I'm using a PCMCIA card (Silicom Serial/PC Card) that works fine with all system I program (Pronto, Xantech, Crestron and AMX).
The only problem I've got so far is with the Philips software that does'nt recognize any port then COM1...so, I'm using the Tonto software that works much better for me.
Good luck
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| Post 7 made on Monday December 30, 2002 at 10:09 |
grigsby Long Time Member |
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I had the same problem when I went with a dell laptop too. My solution was to buy the port replicator which has a serial port. You can get them fairly cheap on ebay and while it costs more than an adapter that doesnt work it allows you to dock the laptop for use at home....
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