Hi Attila you got it in one (givethe man a kewpie doll :-)) ) Yes it was so far on windows machines I have not got to the Linus machine yet but I am expecting better performance....the trouble is 70-80& or our users will use Windows.
Thanks for your comments that is very reassuring. Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Attila Kinali" <att...@kinali.ch> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 11:36 PM Subject: [time-nuts] usb serial converter (was: Advice on NTP server needed) > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:25:54 +0100 > "Alan Melia" <alan.me...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > Of the USB converters the best seemed to use the FTDI chip and driver, but > > even > > these have shown fails suggesting the problem is deeper inside the PC. All > > problems have been on the PC reception leg, causing corruption, and often > > what seemed like a driver disconnection so the "serial port" became > > disconnected from the application, and required the app restarting. > > What OS have you been using? If it's windows, then blame the > windows usb serial driver. It's the biggest piece of sh*** i've > seen in a long time in the driver world. It is even able to > freeze the machine without blue screen. Reliably. > > On the other hand, i am running an FTDI based usb-serial converter > at home on a linux box to monitor another system. I did not have > any problems at all in the year i use it. And given that the system > runs 24/7 the slightes problem resulting in a disconnect should have > shown up until now. > > Attila Kinali > > -- > Why does it take years to find the answers to > the questions one should have asked long ago? > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.