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4-Port USB to Serial Adapter COM Retention FTDI Chipset 920K Baud Rate

Product Review (submitted on January 12, 2015):

Most of the inexpensive serial to RS-232 converters have been bricked (made unusable) by an update to windows 7 and 8 by Prolific(FTDI) in order to punish counterfeiters of their chips and I can understand that. However, it leaves people like me with
devices that are worthless! I have several converters from GearMo that have seemed to survive. Don't know if it is the drivers they send or if they are using legitimate FTDI chips. The bottom line is that so far they work fine and are well built. I know for sure that the little blue converters and a lot of cheep ARDUINO boards suffer problems from the update. There is a somewhat involved workaround to fix the problem but I don't know if it is worth it. Could be that another update from Prolific could render the fake ones inoperable again. Bottom line..... Pay a little more, buy from Amazon and one way or another your problems will be taken care of.