Getting Started - StarTech.com NETRS232 Quick Installation Manual

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Congratulations on your purchase of a StarTech NETRS232. NETRS232s connect serial

devices to Ethernet networks. Any serial device—POS equipment, factory machinery,

monitoring hardware, or security devices, for example—can send its information to the

NETRS232.The NETRS232 places the serial data in a TCP/IP wrapper and sends it out its

Ethernet port. Data moving the other direction, from the Ethernet side of the

NETRS232 to the serial device, undergoes the same process in reverse. StarTech

NETRS232s use industry-standard hardware interfaces and are supported in Windows®

NT4, Windows®2000,

With a NETRS232, you can:

• Network serial devices

• Make devices available to multiple users

• Manage multiple serial devices from a single PC

• Eliminate long dedicated serial runs

• Stop using costly PCs as dedicated serial port servers

• Remotely access and control serial devices

• Eliminate long-distance phone-modem charges

Included with your package, you should have the following:

• StarTech NETRS232

• Power supply

• Quad DB-9 cable (NETRS232 Quad version only)

• Installation diskette

• Quick Installation Guide

Getting Started

Windows® XP, Windows® 2003,

Linux, and QNX.

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