Laptop Dock Serial Port On Computer

Used to interface a serial port multiplexer w/ a new USB only computer. It was plug and play after adjusting baud rate.

For those few times left you need a serial cable, and you don't have a computer built after 1995 (well, an old one, anyway), there's this guy/gal/cable. It works, the drivers installed flawlessly, the cable did its job, and I was able to lie to terminal software and tell it that a USB port was a serial port. YAY!

I bought this adapter to use a serial port on my laptop, for use with my weather station with my laptop. It functioned perfectly and allowed me to provide weather information. If your computer has a USB port but lacks an RS232 port then this is for you!

I recently damaged my laptop serial port. Rather than replace the laptop I bought a USA 19HS. This is a USB to serial connection. I connects with every PLC I program, first time, every time. I have equipped all my laptops USA 19HS adapters. I love the reliability.

Works for my use case connecting to the serial port on a router.

This dock is absolutely worth it. I have dual 1440p monitors (one Apple Thunderbolt Display and one Cinema Display), both are running perfectly at 60 hz via adapters. I keep an external SSD plugged into the 10 gbps port and get great consistent speeds. No problem getting sustained full gigabit speeds over the Ethernet port. I often get handed SD cards by my colleagues to offload media to our servers. Those transfers are fast with the UHS-II card reader. USB thumb drives are also so handed to me frequently, these get plugged in the front USB ports. All this AND I get 87 watts of power to my laptop. Now I can unplug just one cable if I have to go to a meeting or do a video call in another room. The CalDigit software that ejects everything with one click is nice as well. In short, my laptop becomes a desktop with just one cable. This is the best purchase you can make for your mac if you use it in a professional environment. If you’re on the fence, just buy it. It’s better than all other options on the market at the time of this writing (August 2020).

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The multiport dock is a great addition to my laptop, offering two USB-C ports and a standard USB port. There is also a PD 3.0 port, which makes charging more efficient. The dock doesn't come with the recommended charger, which both charges the dock as well as providing up to 50W pass through charge for attached devices, however I used the dock hooked into my laptop. It powered multiple devices without any reduction in the operating speed of the laptop or the attached devices. I did not attach a monitor although there is a VGA port to attach one, as well as an HDMI port. There is also SD and micro SD ports to upload pictures.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] If you have a USB-C connector you're all set. I used this with my laptop and my desktop computers. It fits nicely under the back of the laptop and gives eleven rearward facing ports. I missed having an LED on the dock to indicate that it's powered up, but that's about the only thing missing. Having a passthrough USB-C port to full power charge my iPhone while working is great. I hooked up an external monitor using the HDMI port on the dock and it synced up immediately. With two USB-3 ports, a USB-2 port and the passthrough USB-C port, you're never without a handy USB port. With three video ports (HDMI, DisplayPort and VGA you can easily add multiple monitors. The icing on the cake is the handy SD and microSD card slots and a network connector. I used the network connector to hook the laptop up to wired ethernet CAT6 connection and it worked fine. This is a solidly built aluminum dock with rubber non-slip pads on both the top and bottom. It's quite elegantly and sturdily designed. Well, until there's another new-fangled port on the scene, this dock will take care of all my needs.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This relatively compact dock made my work from home laptop setup fantastic. I hooked it up to both my Thinkpad X1 Carbon, as well as my MacBook Air, and it worked for both laptops well. For my Windows machine, it extended my laptop display, giving me 2 screens. This was the most important feature for me. The USB-C port provided enough power for all my devices, and the DP and HDMI ports were more than I needed to hook up my screens. The extra USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports are nice to have and both my laptops automatically recognized everything like they were built in to the computers. I pulled out an old SD card to test that out and that worked well, and I can see using this for viewing files from cameras or other devices, but I think I could get a huge SD card and use it as a local backup for pictures, etc. I didn’t have any need for the VGA port, but if you need a legacy port, this has it. No parallel port for those of us with older printers lying around - that would have been an interesting feature. It also has an ethernet port which I think is very useful, with laptops requiring dongles these days for wired internet. I didn’t notice any faster internet from being wired vs. my wireless connection, but I may see if my connection is more stable over time. Design-wise, the wedge shape is obviously designed to place your laptop on for a better typing angle. I didn’t really care about this feature as I hooked up a wireless keyboard with all the extra USB ports that the 11-1 dock had given me. The only time I felt restricted was with the short connecting cable to my laptops, which for most people will help keep their workspace tidy. This is definitely a great little dock, with almost every port you will need, and instantly compatible with both Windows and Mac laptops! It makes WFH better and I can switch my workspace from my work laptop to my personal laptop very easily.

As an Amateur Radio operator I needed an interface device to connect my serial devices to the computer. There are many USB/Serial adpators on the market. The Keyspan USB/Serial adpator has proven time & again to be the hands down favorite due to its reliability, quality and performance. You will not regret this purchase, especially if your looking to interface your serial devices to the computer.