On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:01:57 -0400 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:56:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 05/31/2018 06:58 PM, David Wright wrote: > >>(thanks for your link) gives an idea of the price, and in this case > >>I can see some justification for it because they describe the > >>electronics hidden inside the plugs (we hope). > >> > >>But considering that two NICs cost less than that cable, I'd need a > >>pressing reason to purchase the cable instead. > > > >There is a perceived elegance aspect. > >There is also a practical aspect the only known working and > >conveniently physically accessible ports are USB. > > USB-Ethernet dongles would be a lot more useful in the long term than > USB-Serial dongles. RS-232 had a really good 40 year run, but for > general communications it was mostly obsolete nearly 20 years ago. > You mentioned file transfers--I can't think of any applications where > that's going to be better over a pair of USB-Serial dongles than a > pair of USB-Ethernet dongles. > > Radio? This gadget: https://www.lensadaptor.com/mtf-effect-control-unit-3-kit uses straight point-to-point 8-bit serial over Zigbee type RF tranceivers. Bluetooth is basically 8-bit serial over radio, though with a very short range. -- Joe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
