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Originally Posted by yongkimleng
or grab a usb-serial dongle for about US$10+  |
The problem with (most) USB-to-serial dongles is that the IFI loader dials down the speed so far that it can take 15 minutes or longer to download the code, versus less than 30 seconds on a normal serial port. It probably has something to do with how the loader negotiates the transfer speeds; I.E. the USB converter may have an intrinsic delay that throws the timing calculations off.
Seeing as the port replicator interfaces directly to the mainboard of the laptop over a high-speed bus, chances are it would be more like adding a daughterboard with a serial port and it might even be assigned IRQs and I/O addresses by the laptop's BIOS, in which case it should be indistinguishable from a normal serial port.
Just my $0.02.
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