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company: Puretech Satellite

Advanced COM Port Redirector

• industry: internet services provider
• location: San Francisco, CA, USA
• employees: 10 - 30
• representative: Marco A Pinto, directv technician
• gifts from Eltima: Advanced COM Port Redirector Single License

Victoria Veligodsky: What challenges have driven you to search for a software of this kind?

Marco A Pinto: My GPS software works with COM ports from 1 to 20 with GPS receivers, but I use a Bluetooth GPS receiver and the software that came with it, set the receiver on port 28. What was I supposed to do? How to resolve this problem? So this conflict made me searching for the solution.

Victoria Veligodsky: How did get to know about Advanced COM Port Redirector?

Marco A Pinto: I was searching the web (Google search, live search). This search turned great results. Not only I managed to find your Advanced COM Port Redirector, but thanks to this need I learned a little bit more about serial COM ports.

Victoria Veligodsky: Did you try other products for the same task before choosing Eltima solution? Why did you prefer our product?

Marco A Pinto: Yes, I found three or four more pieces of software. However, the first one that I found was trying to connect two serial ports with no luck. It didn't send the signals to the port that you assign.

Advanced COM Port Redirector worked for me from very first time. It was very easy to install and configure. I tried it and it works perfectly sending the signal from Bluetooth receiver to port COM28 and this port redirects all the data to COM4 with no problems. And my GPS software works just perfectly.

Victoria Veligodsky: Please, describe how you are using our product now.

Marco A Pinto: Well, I've been using the product for 15 days with no trouble at all. I like it very much, because it is the solution I was desperately searching for. Advanced COM Port Redirector resolved the conflicts that I've been experiencing when trying to connect my GPS software to my GPS Bluetooth receiver.

Victoria Veligodsky: How did you benefit from using Advanced COM Port Redirector?

Marco A Pinto: The benefits are great! Thanks to your program I can use my laptop as a GPS navigation system, and this helps me to get to the customers' houses in much less time.

Secondly, I have learnt something new about COM ports and how they work. This gave me more new experience and knowledge and I am planning to start learning this technology deeper.