wireless 9-pin serial/rs232

hi,

i'm looking for a way to connnect the serial port on the back of my
dss in my home theater to my pc in my office. I dont reealy want to
run any wires, so i was wondering if anyone knew of a wireless
solution?

thx for the help,

dan

(E-Mail Removed) (Dan Irwin) wrote in
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> hi,
>
> i'm looking for a way to connnect the serial port on the back of my
> dss in my home theater to my pc in my office. I dont reealy want to
> run any wires, so i was wondering if anyone knew of a wireless
> solution?


Maybe something like this?

http://wireless.netserial.net/

Google is your friend.


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sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
freqence(vs as part of wiFi) and i was hoping for something that has a
reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know

Lucas Tam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<Xns94C1A4258C743nntprogerscom@140.99.99.130> ...
> (E-Mail Removed) (Dan Irwin) wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed) m:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > i'm looking for a way to connnect the serial port on the back of my
> > dss in my home theater to my pc in my office. I dont reealy want to
> > run any wires, so i was wondering if anyone knew of a wireless
> > solution?
>
>
> Maybe something like this?
>
> http://wireless.netserial.net/
>
> Google is your friend.

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
Dan Irwin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
:freqence(vs as part of wiFi) and i was hoping for something that has a
:reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
:a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know

For that last part, it sounds like the 'VirtualCOM' driver supplied
with the NPort DE-311 (http://wireless.netserial.net/) is pretty
close.


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Dan Irwin wrote:

> sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
> freqence(vs as part of wiFi) and i was hoping for something that has a
> reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
> a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know
>

Anything that transmits "on it's own frequency", will require a licence.

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olny under windows though

(E-Mail Removed) (Walter Roberson) wrote in message news:<c4qp92$ete$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
> Dan Irwin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> :sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
> :freqence(vs as part of wiFi) and i was hoping for something that has a
> :reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
> :a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know
>
> For that last part, it sounds like the 'VirtualCOM' driver supplied
> with the NPort DE-311 (http://wireless.netserial.net/) is pretty
> close.

(E-Mail Removed) (Dan Irwin) wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed) om:

> sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
> freqence(vs as part of wiFi) and i was hoping for something that has a
> reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
> a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know


How about bluetooth?

http://www.gridenabled.com/bt232.html

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In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
Dan Irwin <(E-Mail Removed)> top-posted:

|(E-Mail Removed) (Walter Roberson) wrote in message news:<c4qp92$ete$(E-Mail Removed)>...
|> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
|> Dan Irwin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
|> :and i was hoping for something that has a
|> :reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
|> :a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know

|> For that last part, it sounds like the 'VirtualCOM' driver supplied
|> with the NPort DE-311 (http://wireless.netserial.net/) is pretty
|> close.


|olny under windows though

The NPort has drivers for a number of Unix variants.

One of the devices I browsed last night acted as a virtual modem:
connect it up to a serial port, use a few AT-style commands to configure,
and then you were connected to the remote machine. I believe I found
that one in a PDF from alphamicro.net but could not find the product
itself listed on their site.
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In article <5Kacc.12481$(E-Mail Removed) gers.com>,
James Knott <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
an Irwin wrote:

:> sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
:> freqence(vs as part of wiFi)


:Anything that transmits "on it's own frequency", will require a licence.

Not true. There are unlicensed bands of various widths and power and
modulation requirements. Some of them might require periodic broadcast of a
station identifier though ;-)

I seem to recall when I was browsing the FCC regulations, that in some
cases one did not even require a license to transmit (within certain
parameters) on commercial radio station frequencies, if one was
transmitting using "sideband" technologies.

The details of what can or cannot be done unlicensed in areas under
FCC jurisdiction are quite complex. For example, a regulation that
says that you can't transmit beyond a certain power on a certain
frequency band within a certain distance of a [named] Navy weather
station, is still a regulation that permits transmission in that
frequency range provided one is far enough away from that particular
weather station. Sometimes the licensing requirements are tied to
which polarization one is using.

It might take a bunch of research, some hair-splitting, and some
custom electronics, but WiFi is NOT the only spectrum that can be used
for data transmission unlicensed.
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Good idea but:

1. the device and the computer are in two different rooms, and from
what I've heard Bluetooth has a extremely short range (which is why it
never overcame wi-fi, just like why USB never overcame Ethernet)
2. still doesn't is physically hooking anything into a DB9 port (chose
my wording carefully)
3. a hell of a lot of money :-)

Lucas Tam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<Xns94C2537DC794Bnntprogerscom@140.99.99.130> ...
> (E-Mail Removed) (Dan Irwin) wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed) om:
>
> > sorta, but i was hopeing for somthing that just tranmits on its own
> > freqence(vs as part of wiFi) and i was hoping for something that has a
> > reciver and a sender unit, because that way to your computer there is
> > a device hooked into the serial port and thats all it needs to know
>
>
> How about bluetooth?
>
> http://www.gridenabled.com/bt232.html