CableCreation USB to RS232 Serial Adapter (FTDI Chipset), USB to RS232 Gold Plated DB9 Serial Converter Cable for Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Linux and Mac OS X, macOS, 6.6 Feet/2M

I needed this for a damaged Mikrotik router RB450Gx4 and it worked like a charm. Objective accomplished.

My cable just doesn't work and it's too late for a return, unfortunately. I wish I could, though, or at least have it replaced.Another cable I bought, branded by TrendNet just worked out of the box with the same driver (uses same PL2303 internally).UPDATE: although the cable didn't work, the item has been fully refunded. The support was prompt to answer and the process was seamless.

Download the driver. After you run the driver, it should show up as a COM port in your Device Manager, and then PuTTY can use it for SERIAL connections. Tested w/Dell 6248 and Win11.

Cable is good. Need serial to serial DB 9 cable.Best thing they provide you drivers so its easy to run driver and make it work for your job.

Bought this to use as a console cable. Tried it straight and with a gender changer on a Cisco SGE2000P 24-port Gigabit Switch. No communication with the switch, does not work for my intended use.Seems nice and well made. Wish I knew how to make it work... but also ordered a rs232 cable with null modem adapter, that did work.

Best thing was that it worked with Windows 11 for my Radon monitor data download. Older cables would not work with Windows 11

Answered Question for this item:Question: Can I use this for Cisco serial console to laptop ?Answer: Yes, compatibleBy CableCreation SELLER on January 30, 2019No, you cannot. I have tried the cable on two different Windows 10 computers and it will not coax a console prompt from the Cisco SG300-52P switch. I can access the web UI on the switch, but not the console.I have loaded the latest drivers from Prolific, the check driver utility detects the PL2303RA chipset on COM4I have Putty set for 115200, 8, 1, none, none as suggested. Opening the connection on COM4 does not error, it opens the terminal, I get a cursor, I press ENTER to wake up the console, and nothing happens. for 10's of minutes I have waited.I believe this cable is supposed to work (given the above Q/A from the Seller), and it probably does,, but can someone provide me with the magic incantation to make it so?I promise to revise my rating if you can make it work.It is otherwise a nice cable; it is built well, it is just the right shade of black, and all the connectors fit into their respective sockets. The tiny CD is pretty useless these days as no computer I am using has a CD drive installed, but being able to download drivers from the internet is really better anyway.Thanks!Well, I get to leave it review at 1 star. The seller's big response to me was to contact Cisco for more help. Thanks!No, the answer was to buy a small in-line db9 null model adapter and add it before the Cisco console.

Bought this to replace my old cable when they retired the driver for this. I needed it to work on a Windows 11 VM on a Mac, so it will handle the ARM architecture. Plugged it in and worked straight away. Excellent cable.