small problem.

a1424

having spent many hours looking at many guides and loads of posts.i think i am ready to purchase my first dreambox.i am going to get a dm500s,just to start up with first.

i already have a dish on my wall with a one lnb,i will use this for the mean time.until i get a bit better.

however i have a small problem,my laptop does not have a serial port on it.i have seen that there is usb convertor on the market,that hopefully i could connect a null modem cable to it.so i could flash a new image on to the dreambox

has anybody ever used this before?

thanks
a1424.

conorg

Yes, got one of these off Ebay , and have used it to flash my dm500s, it works well. You may find the initial setting up of the Dreambox a frustrating experience, I certainly did, but it's worth persevering because it's a great receiver.

rogue_element

For flashing images i have always used flashwizard and a cat5 cable. null modem cable comes in handy if something goes wrong with the flash and you cant connect via lan. I think I have had my DM5620 for about 2 yrs and used the null modem twice

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My System
I have a Dreambox 5620 (soon to be home to a Digital Alb card) running Gemini and Newcamd, 80cm dish on 30w(crap i know fitting h to h soon),pc linked via crossover, viewd on a 44" Dlp rear-pro tv

conorg

Yes using the LAN connection is faster, but it didn't work for me the first time I tried so it was a good job I had the serial port adapter.

Conor.