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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Excelent quality/price rate

    posted by ForoLinternas on 03/26/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    -Excelent price. The same product on other stores can cost more then $15USD. -The converter and the extension cable are separated, so you can use the extension cable if you need it. If not, you can use only the converter. -Compatible with Linux (pl2303 kern...
    Cons:
    -I haven't found any bad thing to comment.
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    perfect adapter

    posted by darksano on 03/04/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    -really works - does not cause bugs when is used - the pins are resistant and seems to be dureble - the transparent external protection is hard and cool, you can see the circuit board inside - the data conection works, and does not lost precision in my expe...
    Cons:
    None at all
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 2
    • Usefulness: 5
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    it works ok with driver provided on CD

    posted by dan4stone on 03/03/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Price is very very good. he device woks ok under different operating systems.
    Cons:
    The quality of plastic case is medium to low. Because of strange Prolific's policy the adapter does not work with latest versi...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Good product and easy use

    posted by fabecker on 02/24/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Novice  (still getting used to it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    I bought 3 units 10 months ago and I regret not having bought more. The price is unbeatable and it works perfectly on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 64bit. Use with serial cable connected to the (at 9600 bauds) Casio agendas, and runs 100%. Simple and cheap, ...
    Cons:
    None at all. Maybe CD could be more organized - content only its driver.
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 2
    • Usefulness: 4
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    Windows 7 Installation is a headache

    posted by ampaiva on 02/18/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Good color Easy to use Very useful since RS232 ports are extinct from new computers Very easy to install and use under WINDOWS XP The price is unbeatable
    Cons:
    I was not able to install this item under Windows 7. I understand that this is possible. I did some research among tons of for...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 1
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Difficult to install over Windows 7

    posted by MuriloAndrade on 02/16/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Well done, works as expected, comes with mini-cd with drivers.
    Cons:
    Very difficult to install over Windows 7, but still, it is possible. Comes with mini-cd with many drivers, but the right one is...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    good adapter

    posted by maudapont on 02/13/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    it is a good adapter, it is small and helfull. it seems to be made of good quality material and it comes with the diver what helps a lot.
    Cons:
    it is a little bit hard to install it on windows 7, but in general it is good and helpfull. the pricee could be a little bit lo...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 2
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 4
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    Handy tool

    posted by robbage on 01/31/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Cheap and simple. Common easy to get drivers using well known chipset
    Cons:
    The screws don't work very well and are hard to grip. The soft moulding makes it feel cheap and ready to fall off although it p...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Useful adapter

    posted by mxvisor on 01/30/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    - Low price. - Small. - Good build quality. - Comes with USB extension cable. - Adapter working without problems on Linux without additional drivers (OpenSUSE).
    Cons:
    - Not plug and play on Windows 7. I had to manually search them on the disk because there are some drivers for other devices.
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Good USB to Serial Adapter

    posted by dnscpan on 01/28/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    Very good Serial adapter. 100% working. The package comes with CD drivers & USB extension cable. The USB extension cable quality is superb. The overall stuff is very well packaged.
    Cons:
    Driver installation is not easy on Windows 7. You have to install the driver from E:\Driver PL2303\Vista&Win7
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