Free Virtual Serial Ports

Free Virtual Serial Ports

Free Virtual Serial Ports is free software that creates virtual COM ports to connect applications that require serial ports to communicate. It can simulate multiple COM ports on a single PC.
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Free Virtual Serial Ports: Create Virtual COM Ports

Free software that creates virtual COM ports for applications requiring serial port communication, simulating multiple ports on a single PC.

What is Free Virtual Serial Ports?

Free Virtual Serial Ports is a free utility that creates virtual serial ports on a Windows computer. It allows connecting applications that require COM ports to communicate with each other without requiring additional hardware serial ports.

The software creates virtual COM port pairs that act as simple pipe streams. Data written to one virtual serial port is transmitted to its pair port where it can be read. This simulates a serial connection between applications over normal TCP/IP networks.

Key features include:

  • Ability to create up to 20 virtual serial port pairs
  • Set advanced options like baud rates, parity and stop bits for each port
  • Works over TCP/IP so apps can interact over LAN or Internet
  • Compatible with popular serial communication apps and hardware devices
  • Very small installation footprint

Free Virtual Serial Ports is useful for connecting serial apps that are not physically near each other, bypassing serial port hardware compatibility issues, for debugging/testing serial software, and simulating complex serial networks and topologies using only software.

Free Virtual Serial Ports Features

Features

  1. Creates virtual COM ports
  2. Allows connecting applications requiring serial ports
  3. Simulates multiple COM ports on one PC

Pricing

  • Free
  • Freemium

Pros

Free to use

Simple and easy to set up virtual ports

Works with many applications that require COM ports

Cons

Limited to 2 ports in free version

Can conflict with hardware COM ports

May not work with all applications


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