A friend who has experience with the SitePlayer tells me they are
extremely limited in what they can do. We were looking to transfer
serial data from a micro as "transparently" as possible to a PC by
Ethernet. Siteplayer was not the one, Xport was the winner. The
impression I was left with was SitePlayer was cool if you wanted to
activate a few outputs, read a few inputs, or at a stretch
send/receive a few short strings, but after that it runs out of legs.
He also warned me of bugs and very poor support (ie. none).

On 17 Jul 2003 at 11:36, Jinx wrote:

> Thanks for all replies
>
> The customer is undecided whether to have a stand-alone web-
> capable unit or use any available connected PC and Ethernet,
> so both of us are looking into what's involved with either choice.
> Although it's not a high-security or high-confidentiality application
> the data and data line should be reasonably protected from sniffing or
> other interference, so his preference is for the stand-alone unit as
> that will at least probably deter amateur snoopers. He has no problem
> with the price of the Siteplayer and being almost turn-key should cut
> development time and expenses involved with trying to re-invent the
> wheel PIC-wise
>
> Zebra printers http://www.zebra.com/ also have a feature called
> ZebraLink and a ZBI O/S that they say can make the printer into
> a stand-alone terminal
>
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