[Mike Lu] likes to add serial ports to his routers to use for debugging but he didn’t want to drill holes in his new RT-N12. After a bit of head-scratching he thought about repurposing the four unused ...

Before USB standardized how we connect devices, computers were a tangle of incompatible ports. Here are the ones that USB ...

That mysterious port on your TV labeled "Service Only" isn't there by accident. What it actually does, and whether you can ...

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Serial port servers are admittedly old school technology that you might think had been phased out as new IT, SCADA and industrial control system equipment has been phased in. Metasploit creator HD ...

I need to do a serial port connection with a win98 or Xp Pro box. It is to connect to a Nortel Meridian phone system. My problem is that I cannot get the Serial COnnection on Com2 to come up as an ...

Adafruit has unveiled a new addition to their range in the form of the Adafruit Metro Mini 328 that has been designed dot provide a USB-to-Serial connection. The Adafruit Metro Mini 328 takes the form ...

I'm not so sure about using the serial port in C#, but with the regular old win32 api you pretty much just open the serial port like any other file specifiying "COM1" as the file name (or whatever the ...

Alarmingly, these ports are often connected to modems or serial port servers for remote access to systems too: making for as many as 114,000 serial port servers out there that are accessible from the ...