Re: [lug] Comport hub?

[matt barkdull <mattb@iarc.uaf.edu>]

A hub, but of what sort...

How many pins do each of the connectors have?    That almost sounds 
like a parallel printer port sharing device to me.  Something like 
the Logical Connection devices that techs used to loath.

The pins would be DB-25 connectors.  In your case, 1 Female and 5 male.

What we commonly call a "hub" now-a-days has RJ-45 connectors on it 
(Large Telephone jacks).


I don't know what you are willing to purchase, but the best overall 
solution would be to go Ethernet.  You would need to get a PCMCIA 
Ethernet card.   I've seen them as low as $60 out on eBay and 
Pricewatch.
Then get a cheap Ethernet 10BaseT hub, I'd suggest at least a 4 port, 
because you never know when you'll want to connect 4 computers 
together.  For two computers, the cost of putting Ethernet cards and 
getting a hub and cables should come to under $100.  Hubs and PCI/ISA 
ethernet cards can be gotten for around $20 each.  The PCMCIA card 
will be the most expensive and probably hard to find used ones or 
ones that people are willing to sell them cheap.

The cheapest way to transfer files from one computer to another is 
going to be through a serial null-modem cable.  Little more 
complicated for software for some computers, but the serial cable 
should be able to be gotten for under $10 even locally.    If you can 
build cables yourself, you can probably get by with a cable (standard 
serial cable) you already have and wacking the end off and putting a 
new end on wired as a null-modem.


>I have what appears to be a hub, it has one com or is it LPT in, and
>then has what appears to be a modem like RTS and like lights, and then
>has what appears to be 5 comn ports..
>Any ideas?
>
>Mike