Agree, the firmware is pretty old; I have just been chatting with previous owner - he never attempted to connect to a computer so, never updated the firmware & at least confirms for me that we don't know whether the able ever worked; that is helpful in some ways.
With regards the use of flat blade screw driver, I thought the metal strips on the bottom of the rj9 connector were the contacts & that I could short out across them.. probably not eh??
I will try some very fine fuse wire I have & see iif I an insert into the slots on the plug.
I thought I had tested continuity but, given how I attempted that, possibly not actually..
I'll try that again using the fine fuse wire to give myself something to put the probes of my multimeter against.
Not 100% sure how I go about testing the dB9 connector, I assume it involves carefully removing it from it's casing to get at the back of the pins whilst it is connected to the serial/usb adapter?
Can you advise if the RJ11 slots line up with the RJ9 slots? I can then test that part of the connection independantly.
Can relate to crappy ADSL, we were lucky to get 3Mb/s on ADSL here; NBN for the past 12 months, much, much better but, on Fibre to the node so will be interested to see how our connection fairs in the FNQ wet season.
Cheers
Carlton
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Gday Carlton
That is pretty old.
That sounds correct
Dont understand how you can do that, as there are insulating plates between the contacts. I normally just use a bent piece of copper hookup wire ( like a strand from Cat6 wiring or the like. )
You can also short 2 of the pins in the DB9 converter with a short piece of wire. Pins 2 and 3 in the DB9 are the Tx and Rx
If that works, then you probably have a suspect cable ( as you are right, Meade made a lot of dud cables )
If it doesnt work, then the converter may be faulty.
Just a process of elimination.
If you have a multimeter, you can easily check the continuity of the cable to see if it is wired correctly.
I dont have skype or anything like it. Im still on a crappy ADSL ( 2.8kms from exchange ) so anything real time is not functional.
Andrew
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