[WriteLog] More COM Ports

[Marty Tippin]

I've had good luck with the PCI add-on cards made by Siig (www.siig.com) - 
I bought a card that has 2 ports and can expand to 4 ports (the "PCI 
Expander 4S", about $70), all with no IRQ problems, etc. -- I presently 
have a total of *7* serial ports (incl modem) in my machine with no 
problems. My machine is relatively modern - Pentium III running on a 
motherboard that's about 3 years old.  Older, slower, less modern machines 
(Pentium I for instance) most likely will have trouble with these boards as 
their support for PCI and plug-and-play wasn't quite up to speed.


Search the writelog archives at www.contesting.com -- enter something like 
"writelog siig" under "List Search" on the left side of the page. You can 
find my previous postings about this setup.

73,

-Marty NW0L
  martyt@pobox.com


At 10:37 PM 6/14/2001 , David Douglass wrote:

>Apologies for this question, but I'm not much of a computer person.
>
>What's the best way of getting some addition con ports on my PC. I only have
>2, and one is used with the mouse and the other connects to my W5XD keyer
>for WriteLog.
>
>This means that I need to unplug to connect to the net and to run PSK/RTTY
>etc etc.





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