Timeline for Disadvantages of USB to RS232 dongles
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| Apr 10, 2013 at 16:08 | comment | added | AngryEE | I've experienced this increased latency first hand - I tried to transmit two serial bytes back to back but found that the FTDI was dropping bytes. I had to add a 150us delay after transmission to fix it. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 8:00 | comment | added | John U | @Swanand - I use USB-to-serial to flash firmware, it works perfectly. But I always use FTDI devices. There are plenty of bad ones out there which won't work because they buffer the data or do not obey standards. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 4:59 | comment | added | Swanand | Exactly, You can not use USB-to-Serial Converters for Flashing softwares!! It's only for Communication! | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 3:34 | history | answered | PeterJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |