Cable question

I dont know if it will work that simply out of the box as I assume there is some electronics going on in that Belkin device that does the conversion.

For my dissertation I looked at transmiting a seriel signal over a netowrk and what I imagine will happen is it will work like this:

You buy one Belkin convertery thing and connect it to your device that needs controlling. On the controlling computer you will install a program that will create a virtual seriel port on your PC lets call it COM2. So you set the Belkin program to the IP address of the converter and then you set the program that needs to control the serial device to use COM2. These signals are then picked up by the virtual adaptor, encapsulated into a network packet and transmitted to the converter where the reverse happens.

It might be easier for your point of view to take apart the serial cables RS232 connector, thread it through the wall and reassemble.

I'm by no means an expert on transmitting serial over a network but I have had some experiance. If you'd like to discuss further or read a copy of my dissertation drop me an email or on MSN.
 
Thanks for that - although i'm not after transmitting the serial data over the network. I purely just need a serial device plugged into a serial port, but physically unable to use a serial cable, just a cat5. I wanted to know if I, in essence, but a serial cable end on the ends of the cat5, it would work!
 
Yes I understand that you just wanted to use a cat5 cable with a serial end on but I dont think that will work. It might do, but i've never seen it.

Is there some cat5 in place already or would you be running a new cable run?
 
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