Dale - at present VWS is the data collection software. And I have not tried either PuTTY nor TerraTerm to see whether VWS is sending rapid streams of C or R to the wr-25. This is of course a key point if I want to share the 232 line without son=me kind of datalogger interposed.
Right now I have VWS set to generate a csv file every 2 sec on pc1 and then wd reads this from there (on PC2 over the same LAN). This of course introduces delays along the path, but produces output on WD that is at least as near time as rapid fire ever was.
Pardon my ignorance of Putty or others, but I I were to install this on PC1 (VWS Win 7), would I be able to have PuTTY "spy" on the serial com while VWS chats with WR25? Is that how this would work? I would be very grateful for any guidance with this - as I try very hard not to change anything in the Win 7 (VWS PC1) machine since almost everything on it is past its EOL date. Its the only machine on the LAN that gets daily full backups and every 3 hour robocopy mirrors (belt, suspenders, and a rope here!)
Steve