Bought VAG-com serial.... Guess what, laptop doesnt have that, unlike i thought. Serial to USB?
05-28-2005, 11:27 PM
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Bought VAG-com serial.... Guess what, laptop doesnt have that, unlike i thought. Serial to USB?
Ive STFA... cant get a straight answer there...
Can I go pick an adaptor up at say, Radio Shack, and have it work properly with the VAG com?
Thanks!
Jordan
Can I go pick an adaptor up at say, Radio Shack, and have it work properly with the VAG com?
Thanks!
Jordan
05-29-2005, 12:00 AM
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2 options...
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815158011">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815158011</a>
<a href="http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/">http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/</a>
The serial PCMCIA card should work... the keyspan USB->serial will most likely work. ross-tech.com says they don't recommend any USB-serial converters (they recommend a $110 PCMCIA Serial), but obdtool.com says the keyspan usb->serial adapter works.
<a href="http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/">http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/</a>
The serial PCMCIA card should work... the keyspan USB->serial will most likely work. ross-tech.com says they don't recommend any USB-serial converters (they recommend a $110 PCMCIA Serial), but obdtool.com says the keyspan usb->serial adapter works.
05-29-2005, 06:14 AM
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Trade it in for the USB model.
The USB VAG is much better.
1) It doesn't use an obsolete interface (one advantage you're painfully aware of).
2) It's faster for logging
3) I think it actually does a bit more. In any event, the serial version is headed towards obsolesence
4) The USB version doesn't need to be tied to a particular laptop with a key that Ross-Tech generates for that laptop. While they're pretty helpful in doing swaps for you, you won't be able to lend the thing out (w/o also lending the laptop) and it's a hassle to change over. On the USB version, you just plug it in and it works (since there's a security dongle built in to the USB version).
Uwe will give you a discount on an upgrade. If you haven't use the serial one, he might let you return it for credit. The USB versions aren't that much more.
RR
1) It doesn't use an obsolete interface (one advantage you're painfully aware of).
2) It's faster for logging
3) I think it actually does a bit more. In any event, the serial version is headed towards obsolesence
4) The USB version doesn't need to be tied to a particular laptop with a key that Ross-Tech generates for that laptop. While they're pretty helpful in doing swaps for you, you won't be able to lend the thing out (w/o also lending the laptop) and it's a hassle to change over. On the USB version, you just plug it in and it works (since there's a security dongle built in to the USB version).
Uwe will give you a discount on an upgrade. If you haven't use the serial one, he might let you return it for credit. The USB versions aren't that much more.
RR
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05-29-2005, 04:39 PM
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Yeah, but boxster02 doesn't have the port.
They didn't have a dongle on the serial a while back, but I see one is available now. And since the dongle and the "intelligent interface" are probably allied features, the refresh rates are probably the same.
That said, having owned a VAG-COM longer than any other customer of Ross-Tech (I believe I was Uwe's first customer), I still like USB. I had serial for a couple of years and USB about the same. Few laptops have serial and carrying around extra junk (like a serial adapter) is a PITA. Even if you have a serial port now, odds are that your next laptop won't.
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That said, having owned a VAG-COM longer than any other customer of Ross-Tech (I believe I was Uwe's first customer), I still like USB. I had serial for a couple of years and USB about the same. Few laptops have serial and carrying around extra junk (like a serial adapter) is a PITA. Even if you have a serial port now, odds are that your next laptop won't.
RR
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