> All that is required is a standard Null Modem Lead, they work perfectly. > > Laplink cables do not work as you have stated. In fact all that is > required is 5 lines. > > RX --------------- TX > TX ---------------- RX > CTS--------------- RTS > RTS -------------- CTS > GND ------------- GND > > I was going to build a little box that could connect up 4 Sernet > computers, but never got around to it. Might make and bring it to the > next show. > > Derek Just be a little bit careful with this, since I remember Bernd Reinhardt telling me that many versions of Sernet only allow a 2-computer connection due to some performance issues or something which they ran into, at the time - he said if ever I needed to do a multi-computer link to ask him for the special sernet.
I can't remember which versions where affected, it would have been around v2.25 (give or take a few versions, I think about 2 years ago), and I don't know at what point multi-computer support was reintroduced. So if anyone is brave enough like Derek to try the multi-computer sernetting with the circular serial cables wiring, and can't get it to work, this may be one possible reason. Now that a QL with network is a bit of a rarity (only Auroras, QLs and QXLs have network ports) such a box might well prove popular. I'd certainly be interested to see one in action. I'd even like to suggest Sernet as a topic for a session at a workshop soon, given the amount of correspondence here about it. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
